Below is the reading list for Module 2 (M2) of the ISAPS L.I.F.T. Program: Leading Others. We have created a list of books that will help support your learning in this course.
Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders
By Amer Kaissi. This Professor of Healthcare Administration focuses on personal attributes and their importance for healthcare leaders, from kindness to empathy, humility, generosity and compassion.
Patients Come Second: Leading Change by Changing the Way You Lead
By Spiegelman and Berrett: This book suggests medical leaders who focus on employees first can in fact serve their patients better than the traditional view of putting patients first. A provocative view for leaders in health care that challenges orthodoxies.
Cure for the Common Leader: What Physicians and Managers Must Do to Engage and Inspire Healthcare Teams
By Joe Mull: This book is written for physicians and practice managers in a healthcare setting seeking to successfully build teams and lead people. It offers strategies to tackle why some healthcare teams polluted by conflict, gossip, and lack of effort, while others work hard, get along, and wow patients.
Start With The Why
By Simon Sinek. Sinek an inspirational speaker and author of five books including Start With Why (2009) and The Infinite Game (2019). A trained ethnographer, he discovers patterns about leaders and organizations think, act, and communicate. Here Sinek argues that leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way—and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. He provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired, called "The Golden Circle". It all starts with WHY.
HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Managing People
Top global leadership experts share their insights about leading others in two practical volumes.
Volume 1: By Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Jon R. Katzenbach, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Volume 2: By Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Michael D. Watkins, Linda A. Hill, Patty McCord.
