Recommended Reading

The Centre for Health Leadership and Research recommends the following articles and books as an overview introduction to health leadership concepts relating to the focus of interest of centre research.
 
Anderson, D. & Ackerman Anderson, L. (2001). 
Beyond change management: Advanced strategies for today's transformational leaders.  
San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
 
Anderson, R. A., & McDaniel, R. R., Jr. (2000).
Managing health care organizations: Where professionalism meets complexity science.
Health Care Management Review, 25(1), 83-92.
 
Begun, J.W., Zimmerman, B, & Dooley, K. (2003).
Health care organizations as complex adaptive systems.
In S.M. Mick and M. Wyttenbach (Eds.). Advances in health care organization theory. (pp. 253-288). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
 
Ford, R. (2009).
Complex leadership competency in health care: Towards framing a theory of practice.
Health Services Management Research 22, 101-114.
 
Glouberman, S. & Zimmerman, B. (2002).
Complicated and complex systems: What would
successful reform of Medicare look like?
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Discussion Paper No. 8.

Lindstrom, R., MacLeod, S., & Levy, A. (2011).
Twisting the Lion's Tail: Collaborative Health Policy Making in British Columbia
HealthcarePapers, 11(2), 10-24.

Lindstrom, R.R. (2003).
Evidence-based decision-making in healthcare: Exploring the issues through the lens of complex, adaptive systems theory.
HealthcarePapers, 3(3), 29-35.
 
Louis-Denis, J. (2002).
Governance and management of change in Canada’s health system.
Discussion Paper No.36, 2002. (Prepared for Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada: The Romanow Commission).
 
The LEADS in a Caring Environment resource booklets (2010). 
Lead Self; Engage Others; Achieve Results; Develop Coalitions; and Systems Transformation.
Jointly published by Leaders for Life (BC); the Canadian Health Leadership Network; and the Canadian College of Health Leaders:  Victoria, BC.
 
Zimmerman, B., Lindberg, C., & Plsek, P. (1998).
Edgeware: Insights from complexity science for health care leaders.  
Irving, TX: VHA Inc.

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