Leadership in Practice

Essentials for Public Health and Healthcare Leaders

Susan Helm-Murtagh, Paul Erwin
Springer Publishing
490 pages
ISBN: 9780826149237
August 2022

This book prepares leaders for the unpredictability, complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty they will face while leading public health and healthcare organizations and teams. Integrating the most relevant leadership theories, their history, evidence, and application in public health and healthcare, chapters focus on the essential competencies that leaders in public health and healthcare must master, including effective dialogue, ethical leadership and moral courage, systems thinking, strategic thinking and analysis, and emotional intelligence.