Leadership Books Research Articles

Implementation and evaluation of a learner-driven leadership initiative for pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.

Introduction: Leadership training is a crucial component of the pharmacy education curriculum. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) emphasizes and encourages the use of different leadership initiatives, and universities employ tactics with varying levels of success to implement these initiatives. "Leadership theory" debates if leadership can be learned or if it is a natural-born skill. This article explores learned leadership and describes a small study deployed to different levels of pharmacy learners to foster leadership confidence and self-awareness. Educational Context and Methods: Second- and third-year didactic students in a leadership elective, voluntary fourth-year Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) students on an ambulatory care rotation, and first postgraduate year (PGY1) pharmacy residents were included in this initiative. Each cohort facilitated a leadership book club discussion and completed professional development activities over the course of their experience. Learners' perspectives on leadership were surveyed utilizing a pre-post survey study, administered prior to beginning the initiative and after completing the initiative. Findings and Discussion: Results demonstrated learners' perceived confidence and self-awareness in their leadership skills increased from pre-survey to post-survey. Evaluation of qualitative responses exhibited that participants found value in adding more leadership development to their pharmacy training. Most participants noted leadership book discussion facilitation as the most valuable part of the initiative and posited they would utilize skills gained through these discussions nearly every day in their careers. Results suggest PGY1 pharmacy residents showed the most significant increase in their scores from pre- to post-study, while didactic students showed the least significant increase. Implications: Our findings suggest learner-driven leadership initiatives, specifically learner-facilitated book club discussions, are beneficial to incorporate into both didactic and experiential coursework. Implementation of these discussions could be applied in many aspects of the curriculum with minimal resources and a reasonable expectation of perceived benefit to student leadership development.

Leaders Are Readers Book Club to Enhance Interdisciplinary Hospital Leader Communication.

Book clubs are a cost-effective strategy for professional development and to foster relationships. In 2022, hospital leaders at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Community Osteopathic hospital created an interdisciplinary leadership book club. Communication, collaboration, and support among the leaders improved as a result.

Read to Lead: Developing a Leadership Book Club Curriculum for Graduate Medical Education.

The importance of effective leadership for improving patient care and physician well-being is gaining increased attention in medicine. Despite this, few residency programs have formalized education on leadership in medicine. The most effective ways to train graduate medical education (GME) trainees in leadership are unclear. Our large internal medicine residency program implemented a book club to develop leadership skills in residency. Through independent reading of the selected book and resident-led small group discussions, we facilitated dialogue on the challenges of leading effectively. A survey-based curricular evaluation demonstrated that 61% of respondents felt that the book club influenced their thoughts about leadership and that 66% of participants would recommend the book club to other residency programs. Lack of time was the main barrier to participation while addition of complementary media or alternative book formats were identified as possible solutions to increase engagement. Leadership book clubs are a practical and effective way to teach leadership during residency. More research is needed to identify the best formats for book club discussion and to develop additional tools to foster future physician leaders.

Does Current Popular Leadership Literature Show a Preference for Transformational Leadership?

Over the past few years, numerous Leadership models, theories, and methodologies have emerged so that the question arises as to which of the models is most effective, or even which has prevailed. One approach to this question is to compare different models in terms of their overlaps or similarities. This study researches the topic with a reverse approach: can one derive a preference for a particular leadership style or even a leadership direction or leadership ‘school' from the popular leadership literature? The guiding question is which leadership books sell the most and which leadership style or elements of leadership they represent. For this purpose, Amazon's bestseller lists in leadership and management in a specific period and local market are examined in a quantitative-qualitative study both to elicit the distribution of a model and to find common styles and elements of leadership among different authors. The result shows that current popular leadership literature primarily reflects transformational leadership models with elements of transactional management. A particular leadership mindset and special leadership activities such as goal orientation or inspirational motivation can be found in almost all of the most widespread models.

Book Review: How to Lead

Many consider leadership a path to improve their personal, social, and professional lives. People believe that leaders add unique skills to their lives and improve the world in the long run. Accordingly, authors have provided leadership books to help individuals understand leadership and leaders. The author of this book, David M. Rubenstein, is one of them. This book offers perspectives on different leadership experiences. These are categorized into visionaries, builders, transformers, commanders, decision-makers, and masters. The vision of this book is to inspire readers to develop and enhance their leadership skills. Altogether, this book proves that there is no perfect way to lead; any person from any background can become a leader who can make positive changes.

Leading by living – A personal journey towards values and goals-based leadership of self and others

Leading by living – A personal journey towards values and goals-based leadership of self and others

Karakteristik Kepemimpinan dalam Pendidikan di Indonesia

Leadership is needed to drive an organization. Leadership is the determining factor in the success of a program in education. It is necessary to underline the success of education is not the work of individuals, but the work of competent cooperation. Therefore, the leader must be able to give influence to his work team (leadership is influence) to work effectively and efficiently. The purpose of this research is to understand more deeply about the characteristics that must exist in a leader so that the leader can play his role optimally and the educational program can run smoothly. This research uses literary study methods in the form of several journals and leadership books. The results of this study show that after understanding the characteristics of an ideal leader, it should be adjusted to the leadership model to be chosen. All attitudes and behaviors of a leader must be able to build trust and confidence with his subordinates, because the leader is the bridge to the achievement of the organization's mission.

Karakteristik Kepemimpinan dalam Pendidikan di Indonesia

Leadership is needed to drive an organization. Leadership is the determining factor in the success of a program in education. It is necessary to underline the success of education is not the work of individuals, but the work of competent cooperation. Therefore, the leader must be able to give influence to his work team (leadership is influence) to work effectively and efficiently. The purpose of this research is to understand more deeply about the characteristics that must exist in a leader so that the leader can play his role optimally and the educational program can run smoothly. This research uses literary study methods in the form of several journals and leadership books. The results of this study show that after understanding the characteristics of an ideal leader, it should be adjusted to the leadership model to be chosen. All attitudes and behaviors of a leader must be able to build trust and confidence with his subordinates, because the leader is the bridge to the achievement of the organization's mission.

Molly McCarthy, MBA, BSN, RN, RN-BC

Molly McCarthy, MBA, BSN, RN, RN-BC

A Self‐Test for Your Conflict Management Capabilities

Editor's Note: The adaptation below is from G. Richard Shell's new HarperCollins Leadership book, “The Conscience Code: Lead With Your Values. Advance Your Career.” The book, published last month, sets out to help readers “deal more effectively with an increasingly urgent problem in professional life: standing up for core values such as honesty, personal dignity, fairness, and justice when the pressure is on to look the other way.”

Deborah Zimmermann, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Deborah Zimmermann, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is chair of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation.

Can Military Leadership Translate Into Medical Leadership?

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Institute on Psychiatric ServicesFull AccessCan Military Leadership Translate Into Medical Leadership?Nick ZagorskiNick ZagorskiSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:29 Aug 2017https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2017.9a9AbstractRetired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling will share his work on the development of physician leadership with attendees at this year’s IPS.Health care can be a complicated business, but that doesn’t mean that being an effective health care leader needs to be complicated too, believes retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling. And most of the several hundred doctors, nurses, and administrators who’ve taken part in Hertling’s leadership development program at Florida Hospital in Orlando would likely agree.Ret. Lt. Gen Mark Hertling adapted principles gained from his four-decade military career into an effective leadership development program at Florida Hospital in Orlando.U.S. ArmyAt APA’s IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference, being held in New Orleans from October 19 to 22, attendees will get an opportunity to learn about Hertling—who many might recognize from his role as a military and national security analyst on CNN—and his innovative leadership training course based on military models when he delivers the meeting’s keynote address. “People probably think the military is all about ordering people around, but nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. “The success of the military is based around team building and engendering trust.”The techniques that underlie this philosophy are simple, focusing on good communication and ways to develop character, presence, and empathy. But, during his 37 years of service in the U.S. Army, including a tour as commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Hertling found them to be effective time and again.Hertling admits, however, that he wasn’t always confident that the military approach to leadership would translate to a field like medicine—and it wasn’t why he was initially brought to Florida Hospital.“I was hired to head a global partnership initiative, but I had an office next door to the chief medical officer,” he said. “He came in a few times for some advice about handling a problem with one of the doctors. ‘How would you fix this in military?’ he asked.”Register While Rates Are Low!Register now for IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference at psychiatry.org/IPS. Advance registration rates end on September 28. Come enjoy New Orleans in the fall and connect with the experts and your colleagues in an informal setting.Eventually, perhaps impressed with the results of Hertling’s suggestions, the chief medical officer asked for more details on the military approach and wondered if Hertling could set something up for Florida Hospital.“I was unsure about the proposition,” he said. In doing some preliminary research, however, he realized that almost every existing leadership book or strategy—of which there were many—was needlessly overwrought and confusing. Perhaps a direct, no-nonsense method was exactly what was needed. So he agreed to put together a course, with his only demand being that it would be interdisciplinary and welcome all hospital staff.Hertling developed an eight-part seminar series that took a stepped approach to instilling leadership skills: people first learn to look inward and lead themselves, then how to lead other individuals, how to lead a boss, how to lead teams, and finally, how to lead an organization. “It was about halfway through that first course when we saw there was definitely something to this model,” he told Psychiatric News. “You could start to see changes in the attitudes and communication skills.”Today, Hertling’s course is about to start its fifth year, with over 350 graduates who have contributed to a significant change in culture at Florida Hospital. The success has added a new title to Hertling’s portfolio, as he now oversees all leadership education at the hospital. In this capacity, Hertling has started a new course for executive leadership. In keeping with the interdisciplinary theme, the new course includes both hospital executives and physicians who have taken Hertling’s other leadership program.He has also completed a book about his philosophy, Growing Physician Leaders: Empowering Doctors to Improve Our Healthcare, and gone on the road to spread this program to other places. While he was once unsure of the potential of the military model, it has now been successfully implemented for veterinarians, business leaders, and even political appointees.He hopes that those who listen to his presentation at IPS will find value in this leadership approach as well.“Not only can it improve communication with peers or administrators, but given the nature of psychiatric consults, mental health professionals might find it improves their own techniques in dealing with patients,” he said. ■ ISSUES NewArchived

It’s a family business!: Leadership texts as technologies of heteronormativity

This article contributes to the recent scholarship in Critical Leadership Studies by tracing several heteronormative logics entangled within contemporary leadership discourse. As a popular and profitable industry, mainstream leadership studies utilize the fields of psychology and business management to support their claims of successful practices. This situates leadership discourse as a natural, objective, and value-neutral science, rendering its inherently biased and exclusionary assumptions and applications largely unexamined from a critical lens. In response, this analysis illustrates how leadership serves as a technology of heteronormativity by describing prominent and interconnected themes in several of the bestselling leadership books in the United States. Using queer and poststructural theoretical frames in conjunction with critical discourse analysis, three themes are analyzed which illuminate how leadership discourses: rely on heteronormative familial logics, use generational paradigms that position leadership within heteronormative time and space, and promote and privilege (hetero)reproduction through ideas of legacy and role modeling. These themes within leadership coalesce to form decidedly heterosexist/heteronormative discursive practices, disrupting the notion of leadership as an ideologically neutral discourse.

Review of: Maurizio Viroli, How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli’s Advice to Citizens,

Unlike other leadership books, How to Choose a Leader makes a shift of perspective, giving the point of view of the leader to the people. This is in itself interesting, since we rarely come across such an attempt to “teach” citizens so systematically.

What Leadership Books Do Not Tell You

What Leadership Books Do Not Tell You

True Leadership: Leading with Meaning

Leadership is an enduring subject for research, writing, and discussion. There are almost endless theoretical and fundamental explanations as to what leadership is and what makes a good leader. The research has gone through various different phases. Intended for all audiences but specifically written for an Executive Education course, this technical note identifies some of the contemporary theories and prominent thinkers in the field of leadership and outlines the basics of their views. Excerpt UVA-E-0364 Rev. Dec. 2, 2011 True Leadership: Leading with Meaning Leadership is one of the world's oldest preoccupations. —Bernard Bass Leadership is an enduring subject for research, writing, and discussion. There are almost endless theoretical and fundamental explanations as to what leadership is and what makes a good leader. As Ralph Stogdill observes in his 900-page survey of scholarly research on the topic, “There are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept.” It seems that practically every CEO of a Fortune 500 company has written his or her own leadership book—some bestsellers, many not—as have a host of politicians and presidents. Many of these works fall into a blueprint format and invariably portray the leader as succeeding against Herculean obstacles and barriers. Then there is a raft of motivational books on leadership, but the sad fact of these, according to Bruce Pasternack, “is that leadership manuals deliver mainly truisms, pap, and gross generalizations.” And few even attempt to describe the process of becoming a leader. . . .

Beyond The Black Jaco Bins: Haitian Revolutionary Historiography Comes Of Age

Published in 1938 on the brink of World War II, L. R. James's book The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is the finest single accomplishment of the figure many consider to be the outstanding Anglophone Caribbean intellectual of the twentieth century. The Black Jacobins is not merely the most enduring and influential history of the Haitian Revolution in the English language.... It introduced the question of the momentous importance of the Haitian Revolution to audiences throughout the world.-Aaron Kamugisha, C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic WorldIwould say that my favorite leadership book is a book called The Black Jacobins by L R. James. . . . It's the story of a . . . very famous leader and general, by the name of Toussaint Louverture, and he led the only successful slave revolution in human history. . . . A lot of things that I learned as CEO came from that book.-Ben Horowitz, Horowitz Talks about the Black JacobinsSince its publication in 1938, The Black Jacobins has become a veritable classic of historiography. It is one of the rare historical works to have drawn international attention at its publication and to be celebrated still eight decades later. It is also unusual for having built admiring audiences among both the general public and scholars. The work has gone through multiple editions, in numerous languages. The Black Jacobins long was (and may still be) the most cited book on the Haitian Revolution.1 It finds new readers each year, as it is assigned on many kinds of university syllabi, from world history surveys to courses on revolutions and on slavery.2In the wake of the book's seventy-fifth anniversary in 2013, The Black Jacobins is enjoying a surge in popularity. Indeed, in spheres as diverse as Caribbean postcolonial studies and the world of US entrepreneurship, L. R. James seems to be having a moment. In the last decade, several major conferences have been held on his work. These include a seventiethanniversary conference for The Black Jacobins in London in 2008, a seventyfifth-anniversary conference for the book in Liverpool in 2013, a 2013 conference in Glasgow commemorating the fiftieth anniversary ofJames's work Beyond a Boundary, and a 2016 conference at the CUNY Graduate Center called CLR James Now! New works on Caribbean literature and critical theory routinely discuss James's towering influence, and The Black Jacobins is still regarded as a brilliant piece of political analysis and a sensitive literary biography.3 Attesting to the heightened interest in James, Duke University Press recently launched a series offering new editions or analyses of several of his works, including The Black Jacobins. Outside academia, James's work is enjoying renewed popularity among general readers in Great Britain, especially on the left. The Black Jacobins has also received a boost in the business world in the United States after being singled out by Ben Horowitz, an extremely influential venture capitalist, as his favorite book on leadership. Without any self-consciousness about James's Marxism, Horowitz has insisted repeatedly that Toussaint Louverture is a model for CEOs, who should learn about the Haitian general's exemplary leadership skills by reading James's classic study.4However, one field that is not experiencing a James resurgence is Haitian revolutionary history. On the surface, this may not appear surprising. The enterprise of academic history depends on finding new archives and correcting errors made by past scholars as well as asking new questions about these materials. Given the passage of several decades, one would expect scholars to have located more documents pointing toward newer, more complex pictures of the past. It is exceedingly rare for an eighty-year-old book to hold sway in any field of historical scholarship (except as a primary source showing how history was interpreted in the past); typically, recent works of historiography are cited more heavily than older ones. …

In Praise of Followership Style Assessments

Even as leadership books outnumber followership books by a large factor, the social sciences and training fields have created large numbers of assessments related to leadership while leaving a near desert of followership assessments. I argue the case that followership assessments are foundational for followership development—that descriptive language for differentiated styles is needed to understand one's own followership style and the potential paths for performance improvement. The assessment I use consists of four styles: partner, implementer, resource, and individualist. I review the ways this assessment has been integrated into followership developmental initiatives to activate the potential for assessments to stimulate growth. The paper closes with an overview of additional research and developmental instruments that will be needed as the field of followership matures.

Leadership Book Club: An Innovative Strategy to Incorporate Leadership Development into Pharmacy Residency Programs

Purpose: To describe an innovative strategy for incorporating leadership training and development across multiple postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) pharmacy residency programs at a single institution. Background: Tampa General Hospital has 7 pharmacy residency positions: 4 postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) residents and a single resident for each of the 3 PGY2 programs (critical care, emergency medicine, and solid organ transplant). Administrative topics are incorporated across the PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs, with each PGY2 program having additional administrative topics specific to their specialty area. Summary: What began as an elective administrative topic discussion for the PGY2 emergency medicine resident has evolved over time into a longitudinal leadership book club. The leadership book club is utilized to meet the residency goals and objectives related to leadership development for all 3 PGY2 programs. Each year a single book is identified through the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Leadership Academy book list or by participant suggestion. The book is then divided into 4 sections with corresponding hour-long discussions that occur quarterly throughout the residency year. The residency program directors (RPDs) and co-RPDs lead the initial discussion, and each PGY2 resident leads 1 of the subsequent 3 discussions. Based on resident feedback, the leadership book club is an innovative and effective strategy to incorporate leadership training and development into residency training. Conclusion: It is imperative to foster the development of leadership skills in pharmacy residency programs to prevent a future leadership gap in health system pharmacy. Leadership book club is a unique strategy to incorporate leadership training longitudinally across multiple PGY2 residency programs at a single institution.

Teaching with Batman and Sherlock: Exploring student perceptions of leadership using fiction, comic books, and Jesuit ideals

<p>Employers seek college graduates with leadership skills, but studies indicate not all students graduate with leadership ability. Furthermore, an interdisciplinary perspective of leadership implies that leadership learning and ability can be achieved with a variety of methods. This study sought to understand how reading fiction, including comic books and traditional books, engages undergraduate student perceptions of leadership. A group (N = 17) of community college students first read a Batman comic book, The Long Halloween, and then read a traditional (no images) book, A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story. Participant perceptions of leadership were collected using structured surveys. The study determined that participant perceptions of leadership in the comic book were formed similarly to perceptions of leadership in the traditional book, although slight differences were noted. The study’s findings suggest that (a) fiction can engage student perceptions of leadership and (b) comic books can provide educational readings similar to traditional (no images) books.</p>