Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

This book is a guide for those in or considering leadership positions in medicine, teaching how to play to one's strengths, form a functional team, align goals with upper leadership, manage crises, and embrace mistakes as opportunities for growth. The author, David Greer, is a renowned clinician and educator with experience in department chair positions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 116 pages
Publication date: 19 May 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Good leadership in medicine is crucial, yet often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership themselves, or worse, are appointed because of achievements that have nothing to do with their ability to lead. Serving as a guide for those in, or considering, leadership positions in medicine, this book demonstrates how to play to one's strengths and effectively recognize and overcome weaknesses. Describing how to form a functional team and align your goals with those of upper leadership, advice is applicable to all disciplines and hierarchy structures. The author, David Greer, is a renowned clinician and educator, and has held department chair positions in several prestigious institutions, positioning him perfectly to educate on the qualities of a successful leader. Readers will learn how to work within a team, manage unforeseen crises, and embrace mistakes as opportunities for growth.

Good leadership in medicine is crucial, yet often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership themselves, or worse, are appointed because of achievements that have nothing to do with their ability to lead. Serving as a guide for those in, or considering, leadership positions in medicine, this book demonstrates how to play to one's strengths and effectively recognize and overcome weaknesses. Describing how to form a functional team and align your goals with those of upper leadership, advice is applicable to all disciplines and hierarchy structures. The author, David Greer, is a renowned clinician and educator, and has held department chair positions in several prestigious institutions, positioning him perfectly to educate on the qualities of a successful leader. Readers will learn how to work within a team, manage unforeseen crises, and embrace mistakes as opportunities for growth.

Good leadership in medicine is crucial, yet often woefully inadequate. Those chosen to lead often have limited experience in leadership themselves, or worse, are appointed because of achievements that have nothing to do with their ability to lead. Serving as a guide for those in, or considering, leadership positions in medicine, this book demonstrates how to play to one's strengths and effectively recognize and overcome weaknesses. Describing how to form a functional team and align your goals with those of upper leadership, advice is applicable to all disciplines and hierarchy structures. The author, David Greer, is a renowned clinician and educator, and has held department chair positions in several prestigious institutions, positioning him perfectly to educate on the qualities of a successful leader. Readers will learn how to work within a team, manage unforeseen crises, and embrace mistakes as opportunities for growth.

Weight: 136g
Dimension: 122 x 187 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108926294