Managing the Myths of Health Care: Bridging the Separations between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
Bridging the Separations Between Care, Cure, Control, and Community
$48.86
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2018
Summary
“Health care is not failing but succeeding, expensively, and we don’t want to pay for it. So the administrations, public and private alike, intervene to cut costs, and herein lies the failure.“In this sure-to-be-controversial book, leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg turns his attention to reframing the management and organization of health care.The problem is not management per se but a form of remote-control management detached from the operations yet determined to control them. It r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781626569058 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1626569053 |
| Author: | MINTZBERG |
| Publisher: | Berrett-Koehler |
| Imprint: | Berrett-Koehler |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Agency/Distributed |
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Contents
Preface ix
A Note to the Reader xi
1 Managing Ahead 1
2 The Dynamics of Managing 17
3 A Model of Managing 43
4 The Untold Varieties of Managing 97
5 The Inescapable Conundrums of Managing 157
6 Managing Effectively 195
APPENDIX Eight Days of Managing 237
Bibliography 275
Index 291
About the Author 305
About The Author
MINTZBERG
Henry Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University and the recipient of twenty honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is the author of nineteen books, including Rebalancing Society.
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