Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why You Should Read this Book
Part I: Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Insights and Perspectives
Chapter 2 The Milieu of the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 3 Transitioning to Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Conceptual Considerations
Chapter 4 Transitioning to Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Practical Considerations
Chapter 5 Strengths and Motivations of the Leader
Chapter 6 The Work of Leading in the Academic Medical Center
Part II: Deciding About Decision-Making
Chapter 7 The Multiple Dimensions of Decision-Making in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 8 Making Leadership Decisions versus Clinical Decisions
Chapter 9 Getting Comfortable with the "Limits" of Decision-Making
Chapter 10 Decisions about Your Academic Medical Center Career Trajectory
Part III: It's the Little (or not so little) Things
Chapter 11 Leading by Following
Chapter 12 Understanding (and Following) the Academic Medical Center's "Chain of Command"
Chapter 13 The Value of "Invisible" Leadership
Chapter 14 The Leader's Role in Academic Medical Center Philanthropy
Chapter 15 Accreditation: The Regulatory "Lifeblood" of the Academic Medical Center
Part IV: Leadership Challenges & Challenges to Leadership
Chapter 16 Leading Change in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 17 Leading Conflict Resolution
Chapter 18 Crisis Leadership in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 19 Betrayal: Such is the Life of a Leader
Part V: Epilogue
Chapter 20 You Can't Lead if You Don't Take Care of Yourself