Medical Leadership: From the Dark Side to Centre Stage - Softcover

Successful medical leaders are usually, but not always, experienced and credible clinicians with good people skills, who look beyond the boundaries of their own specialty or institution, who are positive and perseverant and who are prepared to take reasonable risks to achieve their goals. Most importantly they know how to engage their colleagues and effect change. They understand the principles of organisational performance and the balance between professional autonomy and corporate behaviour... --Sir Bruce Keogh, in the Foreword

This slim book takes a refreshingly pragmatic look at what is meant by medical leadership and engagement and does not seek to trivialise the barriers to changing entrenched cultures that characterise established models of medical professionalism.' --Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists

respectively Director, Institute for Clinical Leadership, Medical School, University of Warwick; Senior Fellow, The King's Fund (Formerly, Director of Medical Leadership, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement); Director, King's Fund