Reading List
August 2015
Integrated Health Systems
· Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs; Maureen Bisognano
· **The Cleveland Clinic Way – Toby Cosgrove
· **Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
· **Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs
· **The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (Christensen)
· Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care
Electronic Health Records
· **Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery (Liang/Berwick, 2010)
Strategic Planning
Process Based Management / Evidence Based Management
· Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions; David Mann
· The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things right.
· The High Velocity Edge: How market leaders leverage operational excellence to beat the competition; Steven Spear
· The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals; Steven Covey
Developing People / Human Motivation
· Lead with Respect: A Novel of Lean Practice; Michael Balle
· **Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us; Dan Pink (both a book and a TED talk)
eHealth – Expanding the Boundaries of Health Care
· The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands Now; Eric Topol
Must Read Books from Atul Gawande
· Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End;
· Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
· Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
· The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Behavioral Economics and the Science of Behavior Change
· Thinking Fast and Slow; Daniel Kahneman
· **Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (C. Heath/D. Heath, 2007)
· The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business; Charles Duhigg
· Willpower: Rediscovering the greatest human strength; Roy Baumeister
· Nudge, Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness; Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
· Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
· Predictably Irrational ; Daniel Arielly
Measurement
· How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business; Douglas Hubbard
Data Visualization and Analysis
· Now You See It ; Stephen Few
· Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten – Stephen Few
· Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring ; Stephen Few
Science of Improvement
· The A3 Workbook: Unlock your problem solving mind; Daniel Matthews
· **Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA
· **Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor and Lead
Really Fascinating Books by Malcolm Gladwell
· Blink,
· Tipping Point,
· David and Goliath, etc)
The Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare)
· **Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works (Gruber)
Well Being
· Well-Being: The Five Essential Elements
· The Politics of Happiness (Bok)
Articles and Briefings
Michael Porter – Health Care Strategy
o **A Strategy to Fix Healthcare, HBR, October 2013.
o **What Is Value in Health Care? (NEJM, Porter, Dec 2010)
o **Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision To Improve Value By Organizing Around Patients’ Needs (HA, Porter/Lee, Mar 2013)
o How to Solve The Cost Crisis In Health Care (HBR, Kaplan/Porter, Sep 2011)
o **The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care; New Yorker, Atul Gawande
o The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost; Berwick (Original paper on the Triple Aim)
o **Confessions of an Extremist - What Patient Centered Should Mean ; Berwick
o ** A CEO Checklist for High-Value Health Care
Strategy
· Books
o The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (Kaplan/Norton, 1996)
o **The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (Kaplan/Norton, 2000)
o Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (Kaplan/Norton, 2004)
o Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies (Kaplan/Norton, 2006)
o The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage (Kaplan/Norton, 2008)
o **Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results (Niven, 2006)
o Balanced Scorecard: Step-by-Step for Government and Nonprofit Agencies (Niven, 2008)
· Articles, Papers & Briefings
o **Reinventing Your Business Model
o **Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines
o **The Core Competence of the Corporation
o **What Is Strategy?
o How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
o The Office of Strategy Management
o The Balanced Scorecard - Measures That Drive Performance
o Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
o Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
o **Having Trouble with Your Strategy, Then Map It
o **Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets
Management, Leadership, and Other
· Books
o **Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results
o If Only We Knew What We Know
o **The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
o Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
o The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
o How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations
o Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
· Articles, Papers & Briefings
o Simple Rules for a Complex World (HBR, Eisenhardt, Sep 2012)
o **What Is an Organization’s Culture? (HBS, Christensen, Aug 2006)
o **Accelerate! (HBR, Kotter, Nov 2012)
o The Innovation Value Chain (HBR, Hansen/Birkinshaw, Jun 2007)
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