Linda Henman

In the wake of an international pandemic, Healthy Decisions: Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Executives emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the complex world of healthcare management. This thought-provoking book challenges the status quo, arguing that the success of healthcare organizations hinges not on abstract concepts like "culture," but on the concrete decisions executives make. Drawing from real-world experience with large systems like Mercy and Banner Health, specialty hospitals like Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, insurance companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield, and nonprofit elder care systems, the authors provide a practical guide to help healthcare executives make the tough decisions they can’t afford to get wrong. With more than eight decades of combined consulting experience with diverse healthcare organizations, the authors present a compelling case for the paramount importance of decision-making in healthcare leadership. They argue that executives must embrace the messy, pragmatic reality of running healthcare organizations. This book offers a roadmap for healthcare leaders who want to move beyond vague discussions of culture and focus on the specific, high-stakes decisions that shape the climate of their organizations. Healthy Decisions offers a fresh perspective on organizational climate, asserting that it's shaped by a series of daunting decisions, not nebulous factors. The book provides invaluable insights into: The pitfalls of using "culture" as a convenient excuse for organizational failures The important role of well-developed analytical thinking skills in effective leadership Strategies for making difficult decisions more consistently, quickly, and accurately Real-world examples and research findings that illuminate the path to better decision-making The dispassionate thinking skills needed to assess risks and tradeoffs effectively How to inspire teams to embrace change, disruption, and innovationThis essential roadmap equips healthcare executives with the tools to unlock their decision-making potential, avoid the traps of indecision, and ultimately improve the health of their organizations. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare leader or an aspiring executive, Healthy Decisions will transform your approach to leadership and organizational success in an increasingly uncertain world.

In the wake of an international pandemic, Healthy Decisions: Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Executives emerges as a crucial guide for leaders navigating the complex world of healthcare management. This thought-provoking book challenges the status quo, arguing that the success of healthcare organizations hinges not on abstract concepts like "culture," but on the concrete decisions executives make. Drawing from real-world experience with large systems like Mercy and Banner Health, specialty hospitals like Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital, insurance companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield, and nonprofit elder care systems, the authors provide a practical guide to help healthcare executives make the tough decisions they can’t afford to get wrong. With more than eight decades of combined consulting experience with diverse healthcare organizations, the authors present a compelling case for the paramount importance of decision-making in healthcare leadership. They argue that executives must embrace the messy, pragmatic reality of running healthcare organizations. This book offers a roadmap for healthcare leaders who want to move beyond vague discussions of culture and focus on the specific, high-stakes decisions that shape the climate of their organizations. Healthy Decisions offers a fresh perspective on organizational climate, asserting that it's shaped by a series of daunting decisions, not nebulous factors. The book provides invaluable insights into: The pitfalls of using "culture" as a convenient excuse for organizational failures The important role of well-developed analytical thinking skills in effective leadership Strategies for making difficult decisions more consistently, quickly, and accurately Real-world examples and research findings that illuminate the path to better decision-making The dispassionate thinking skills needed to assess risks and tradeoffs effectively How to inspire teams to embrace change, disruption, and innovationThis essential roadmap equips healthcare executives with the tools to unlock their decision-making potential, avoid the traps of indecision, and ultimately improve the health of their organizations. Whether you're a seasoned healthcare leader or an aspiring executive, Healthy Decisions will transform your approach to leadership and organizational success in an increasingly uncertain world.

To position an organization for growth, you cannot shy away from disruptive, high-stakes, pivotal decisions about the future.So why DO you?Why do so many smart leaders cringe when they face disruption?Most people think of disruption as negative while some leaders make disruption their goal. Organizational Psychologist Dr. Linda Henman considers both approaches preventable and costly mistakes. The surprising truth about improving anything you do—personally, professionally, publicly, or privately—lies at the intersection of your ability to think abstractly and your willingness to take prudent risks.Drawing on a rich trove of original, cutting-edge research and four decades’ worth of consulting, Henman knows what it takes to succeed in the C-suite. She dispels myths by presenting a clear and compelling summary of what she has observed—and in many cases, helped to create. Her in-the-trenches experiences spurred her to arrive at this conclusion: Myths about leadership have blinded us to what leaders really do. Many leaders believe in the concept of creative disruption but remain skeptical about trusting it. Jam-packed with big ideas, Risky Business arrives just in time—a rare book that will transform the way you think about risk, change the way you view disruption, and help you understand what you must do to think strategically, to grow dramatically, and to do it quickly. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with story-driven narratives and practical takeaways, Risky Business brings together decades of counterintuitive research to shed light on how you can effect change.

The Merger Mindset offers a unique perspective for leaders—those executives whose companies, reputations, and futures will thrive or fail because of a deal or a series of deals. This book for leaders helps decision-makers deal with the powerful undercurrents and interpersonal dynamics at play in every deal, and no one is more qualified to write it than Constance Dierickx and Linda Henman.Other books on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures overwhelmingly have one characteristic in common: they’re technical. Attorneys write books about the legal and contractual aspects of deals; project management experts write from the point of view of managing tasks and schedules; and investment bankers write about valuation and negotiation. The Merger Mindset presents an amalgamation of what Drs. Dierickx and Henman have observed—and in many cases, helped to create—in more than 65 cumulative years of consulting with Fortune 500 companies, privately-held firms, family-owned businesses, and military organizations. Their in-the-trenches experiences spurred them to arrive at this premise: To position their organizations for more success, leaders can’t shy away from the high stakes, tough decisions about their futures.This book maps the key steps in the M & A journey. It takes the reader through how to make the decision to grow acquisitively, identify roadblocks and typical wrong turns, and ultimately shows how to unlock their decision-making potential while navigating an increasingly uncertain world. Through compelling stories and surprising research findings, readers will discover that there’s much more to the decision-making that drives M & A deals than they ever imagined, and they will come away with tools to help them deepen their understanding of what it takes to succeed. A fascinating read, the text weaves lessons that surface from the stories with highly pragmatic advice about suggested mindset, checklists, processes, and diagnostic tools. Readers will understand that while M & A deals aren’t simple, leaders don’t have to overly complicate them either. Instead, they can simplify the process if they remember hope shouldn’t serve as a strategy, and they can’t abdicate or delegate their leadership responsibilities.The lessons from mergers and acquisitions are critical to those considering a deal, but applied elsewhere, they have equal value, even though noticing them takes more effort. This is the essence of leadership: doing the hard work of ensuring that the gulf between strategy and tactics does not lead to either over simplification or needless complexity.