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<p><b>Help your team excel.</b></p> <p>Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals.</p> <p>If you read nothing else on leadership, read these articles. We've combed through hundreds of <b>Harvard Business Review</b> articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare leaders to help you and your team excel, maximize performance, and live into your mission.</p> <p>Leading experts, such as Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, John P. Kotter, and Amy C. Edmondson, provide the insights and advice you need to:</p> <ul> <li>Understand the difference between managers and leaders</li> <li>Motivate others to excel</li> <li>Create successful cross-functional teams on the fly</li> <li>Maintain your identity and values as a clinician as you move into an organizational leadership role</li> <li>Have an impact not only on your organization but on the surrounding system</li> <li>Work in complex environments where authority is diffuse</li> <li>Lead effectively in times of rapid change</li> </ul> This collection of articles includes "What Makes a Leader?," by Daniel Goleman; "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker; "What Leaders Really Do," by John P. Kotter; "Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve," by Jim Collins; "The Work of Leadership," by Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie; "Teamwork on the Fly," by Amy C. Edmondson; "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance," by Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko; "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader," by Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Peter M. Senge; "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; "Health Care's Service Fanatics," by James I. Merlino and Ananth Raman; and "Engaging Doctors in the Health Care Revolution," by Thomas H. Lee and Toby Cosgrove.