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Managing the myths of health care
Published: 8 November 2012
Author: Henry Mintzberg
Abstract:
Myths impede the effective management of health care, for example that the system is failing (indeed, that is a system), and can be fixed by detached social engineering and heroic leadership, or treating it more like a business. This field needs to reframe its management, as distributed beyond the “top”; its strategy as venturing, not planning; its organizing as collaboration beyond control, and especially itself, as a system beyond its parts.
Read full article: World Hospitals and Health Services, 2012