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Managing the Myths of Health Care
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Managing the Myths of Health Care

Bridging the Separations Between Care, Cure, Control, and Community

Berrett-Koehler, 2017 plus...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Applicable
  • Overview

Recommendation

Management guru Henry Mintzberg brings his contrarian, astute advice to health care. After an indictment of dysfunctional “health care systems” worldwide – particularly in the United States and Canada – he prescribes greater collaboration, less competition and more emphasis on cause over cure. From the folly of “managerial fads” to simplistic government fixes, Mintzberg argues that health care suffers from weak leadership and trendy strategy. To his way of thinking, only on-the-ground management can fix it. While health care must include specialists, he says, it should overcome the divisions among physicians, administrators and providers. Such silos reinforce entrenched hierarchies and undermine patient care. While always politically neutral, getAbstract thinks health care professionals, administrators, policy makers, politicians, patients and investors will find food for thought in Mintzberg’s analysis.

Take-Aways

  • Fundamentally, health systems work. People are living longer, if not healthier, lives.
  • Maximizing profits and treating patients like customers never worked, anywhere.
  • The health care system needs a more systematic approach to care and treatment.

About the Author

Henry Mintzberg teaches at McGill University’s School of Management. His 19 books include Rebalancing Society, Managing, Simply Managing and Strategy Safari.


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    A. D. 2 months ago
    Interesting, good, good
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    M. A. 2 months ago
    Very instructive. Thank you
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    A. 7 years ago
    There are interesting parallels to his view on what healthcare needs and to what I think large corporations need. And I'd be interested to see the agile method used to build ground up ways to approach healthcare. The Mayo Clinic sounds good but I bet there are even better ways waiting to be co-designed.