New Mgt Books : Master the Matrix and Mgt on the Mend

Management on the Mend : the healthcare executive guide to system transformation

By John Toussaint, MD

RA 971 T687 2015 at MMC Library

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Master the Matrix : 7 essentials for getting things done in complex organizations

By Susan Z. Finerty

HD 58.5 F56 2012  at MMC and SMH Libraries

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If you would like to check out either of these books, please contact your Librarians:       

Michele Matucheski            920-223-0340                           

Deb Knippel         715-346-5091

Recommended Reading : Ten Thousand Horses : How Leaders Harness Raw Potential for Extraordinary Results by John Stah-Wert / Ken Jenlnings

By Guest Blogger : Karen Schaefer, Lean Education Director for Ministry Health Care

Ten Thousand Horses is a fictional story of a struggling manager who goes to his old mentor who runs a ranch that promotes adoption of wild mustang horses and troubled youths (Think : Rawhide Ranch only horses instead of cars).

He learns the application of the model T x 3C=E

Trust x Challenge/Charge/Cheer=Engagement.

I would recommend this book as an enjoyable read – especially for new/existing middle managers.

Available at the MMC Library : Call Number HD 57.7 S715 2007 Management Collection

Contact Librarian, Michele Matucheski,  if you’d like to borrow this book.  

Karen

Karen Schaefer, RN, MSN

Lean Education Director

New Book at Ministry Libraries : Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

By Dr. Atul Gawande

“In his latest book, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.”

To borrow this book, contact your Librarians :

Deb Knippel at 715-346-5091 

or Michele Matucheski 920-223-0340