ABSTRACT
A plethora of educational materials have been published on professional career development and leadership skills; far fewer for physicians of course, but the basics remain the same. Why such a proliferation on this topic? Perhaps it is due to the fact that health care leadership today is now considered very different from the leadership style of yesterday. Every aspect of leadership has been under intense scrutiny, by employees, industry experts, physician executives, and business management gurus. Much like [health, the Internet, and 2.0] today, the very form of leadership is in a state of evolution-changing, modifying, and rede›ning core values. Many leadership theories or models have been developed, revised, reviewed, and assessed by the experts. What is needed, therefore, is
Yesterday’s Death Knoll for Medicine? ......................................................................................... 368 Scenario .......................................................................................................................................... 368 Judging Career Success .................................................................................................................. 369 Medical Career Paths ..................................................................................................................... 369 Medical Career Evaluation ............................................................................................................. 371 Personal Assets Evaluation ............................................................................................................ 373 What Makes a Leader? ................................................................................................................... 374
Changing Health 2.0 Paradigms ................................................................................................ 374 Multigenerations ....................................................................................................................... 375
Leadership versus Management ..................................................................................................... 375 New Rules of Physician Executive Leadership ......................................................................... 377
Rule 1 ................................................................................................................................... 377 Rule 2 ................................................................................................................................... 377 Rule 3 ................................................................................................................................... 377 Rule 4 ................................................................................................................................... 378
Assessment ..................................................................................................................................... 378 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................... 378 Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................380 References ......................................................................................................................................380 Bibliography .................................................................................................................................. 381 Internet Resources .......................................................................................................................... 381
an integration of several models speci›cally appropriate for today’s health care business environment and modern health care executive [1].
