Reflecting on Leadership, a New Year's reading recommendation list

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Recommended Reading on Leadership

(some books also available in audio format)

links and content updated 02.17.2020

For the Healthcare Program Leader, Change-Agent, or Integrative Health program "Champion", and Hospital Sponsor, current and future  

• Duke University Leadership Program white papers on leading change in health care:
• The Pebble in the Pond:  How Integrative Leadership Can Bring About Transformation by Adam Perlman, Bonnie Horrigan, Elizabeth Goldblatt, Victoria Maizes, and Ben Kliger.
• Informed Mindfulness:  The Power of Awareness and Choice in Effective Leadership by Michael Aquilino, Bonnie Horrigan, and Adam Perlman.
• The Leaders of Integrative Healthcare Programs audio and audiovisual resources these are located on our Lunchtime Listens page

• Margaret Heffernan's Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes, a 2015 TED book
• see how small shifts and behavior changes lay fertile ground for cultural change in the workplace
• Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times by Covey et al.
• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead:  Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. --added late winter 2019
• Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power that Elevates People and Organizations by Monica Worline and Jane E. Dutton--added summer 2019
• "A leader who practices mindfulness and self-awareness is a positive force" post
• "Making space for innovation" post
• Subscribe to the Facebook Page to follow the "leadership and workplace Mondays" theme that started in spring 2018.  If you are on a Facebook fast, I just started doing a monthly summary of these social media posts in November 2018.

General Leadership Book Favorites

• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. (added late winter 2019)
• Rising Strong:  How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
• Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes
• See how small shifts and changes in behavior lay fertile ground for cultural change in the workplace in Margaret Heffernan's Beyond Measure, the big impact of small changes, a 2015 TED book.
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (added 2.17.2020)

What I am reading or re-reading in 2020

last updated 2.17.2020. Watch our "Leadership & Workplace Mondays" posts for most recent updates

• Brene Brown's Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
• New website with Dare To Lead resources (added 3.30.2020)
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (added 2.17.2020)
• Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear by Richard Sheridan
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Classics--recommended foundational reading

• The classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by S. Covey
• The book, First Things First by S. Covey, offers not a clock for how to do more in less time, but a compass.
• "...provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going"
• Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times by Covey et al.
• Arianna Huffington's Thrive:  The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder   
• Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen Covey.
• "The intrinsic rewards of primary greatness . . . integrity, responsibility, and meaningful contribution"

If you are looking for related leadership and workplace recommendations in an audio or audiovisual form beyond these books, go to our growing list of Lunchtime Listen recommendations.

What are your favorite books on leadership and why?  Please write in the comments.

related blogposts

The Gift Ideas page

Supporting our Hospital Administrators

Reflective Readings to Inspire Your Health and Wellness

Learning about Mindfulness

The Integrative Medicine Researcher

The Healthcare Provider or Graduate Medical Student
Basics of Being an Employee in a Medium to Large Healthcare System, a video interview series
Reflection & Self-Care Recommended Reading

If you have found these recommendations helpful, please contribute toward the costs of supporting this blog resource and building related resources on our website.

Gift Ideas for the Graduate Medical Student or Health Care Provider

The Graduate Medical Student, Resident, or Practitioner interested in Integrative Health

some gift ideas

list and links updated 02.17.2020

You can request these books from your library, through the Libby app (Overdrive), or buy via the Amazon links. If you follow an Amazon link from this page and buy within a few hours, a few pennies of your purchase goes toward the Hospital Handbook Project. However, if you find this work useful, the best way to support this work is through our "support us" page on the website. Thank you.

Feed Your Mind

• Bates Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 12th edition, hardcover. 
• Bates’ Pocket Guide available in paperback and Kindle formats
• Case Studies to Accompany Bates’ Guide available in paperback and Kindle formats
• Integrative Health Clinicians’ Desk Reference, paperback and Kindle editions
• Spark in the Machine
• Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, MD.  Paperback and Kindle formats.
• Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The Educated Heart, a practical guide to professional boundaries by Nina McIntosh
• Griffin's Hospitals:  What They Are and How They Work
• Deepak Chopra books
• Super Brain:  Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being
• Super Genes:  Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being

Practical Stuff for Work    

Yeti mug

• Yeti Mug—keep your student hydrated and the liquid stays hot or stays cold for the entire clinical shift or study session. 
• Yeti Rambler 20 oz
• 68oz Thermos insulated (by Thermos)
• RFID-blocking wallet--to protect your hospital ID card and other cards (credit cards)
• RFID-blocking wallet, Trayvax company  Such as
• Trayvax Ascent, Trayvax Element, Trayvax Axis, and Trayvax Contour and more at their website.

See the Gift Idea page for more inspiration and links to fair trade coffee and chocolate

Getting Used to the Workplace as an Employee-Clinician

• "Basics of Being an Employee in a Medium to Large Healthcare Setting", a new video interview series recorded in 2019 and going through editing and publication into 2020. Topics in the six videos include: what to expect during employee orientation (onboarding), performance plans & employee evaluations, mentor-relationships and career path mapping, and team communication as a professional clinician
• First Steps (to getting your foot in the door of hospital-based practice) resource (e-booklet + workbook)
• The "New Hospital Employee Resource"
• Follow our "Leadership & Workplace Mondays" theme on our public Facebook Page and the blog article summaries of these posts.

Research Resources for the Hospital-based Clinician

• The "Research & Metrics" theme on our Facebook Page and blog article summaries. 
• Research Literacy and Practical Applications for the Hospital-based Clinician
• Short courses with pdfs on metrics for clinical practice
• How To Use a Validated Pain Scale in Your Clinical Practice
• Calculating Morphine Equivalent Dose (MEQ) for Non-prescribers: Medication Review Standard
• The Integrative Medicine Researcher
• Notes from the 2019 Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) Conference

If this was useful, please support this community work.  

You can buy me a coffee, sponsor a newsletter, or sponsor a project via the website.

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

The Integrative Medicine Researcher

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

updated 12.15.2018

1. Are you researcher interested in designing studies in the field of integrative health/integrative medicine?
2. Are you an integrative health (IH) program director, designated IH "champion" for your department or facility, or the program lead?
3. Are you a integrative health clinician looking to design your clinical metrics?
4. Or, are you a graduate student looking to understanding more about research in the field?

Each of the above 4 have slightly different resource needs.

• First, no matter which of the 4 you identify as, I recommend you sign up for the email list to have access to our basic resources and be notified of updates in our resources as they are created.  
• Second, if you are not finding what you need through the following resource links, please contact me via the website contact page.  Some resources are still in development.  And, I would like feedback if our resources need some updates or improvements.  Thank you.  

In the spirit of the "gift ideas" and resource recommendations, here is a list of items available through Amazon.  When you follow the Amazon affiliate links on this page and purchase an item within a few hours, a few pennies goes toward the Hospital Handbook Project.  However, several of these resources are not available from Amazon, so we drafted a resource pdf of bibliographies, etc.  If you are interested in that pdf, please contact me through the contact page on the website.

(1) The Researcher interested in Designing Studies in the Integrative Health Field

Books available through Amazon—just follow these links:

• Spark in the Machine:  How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
• Acupuncture Research:  Strategies for Establishing an Evidence Base by Hugh MacPherson, Richard Hammerschlag, George Lewith, and Schnyer
• Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare by Volker Schneid and Hugh MacPherson
• Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies:  Principles, Problems and Solutions by George Thomas Lewith, Wayne B. Jonas, and Harald Walach
• Clinicians’ &Educators’ Desk Reference on the Integrative Health & Medicine Professions by Elizabeth Goldblatt, Pamela Snider, and Beth Rosenthal, and Renee Motheral Clugston
• Science of the Heart, vol. 2 by Rollin McCraty.  The science behind HeartMath (breathing techniques, meditation, brain waves, neuroscience, biofeedback)
• The "Researcher's Resource List"
• This is a pdf compilation of citations of recommend resources for the beginning or established researcher interested in the field of integrative health and particularly acupuncture.  The list has been compiled with feedback from the Hospital practice Handbook Project community.  It contains favorite reads and resources on clinical research design, published research and pilot studies, and common research field issue discussions.  
• If you are interested in this pdf, send me a specific message through the contact page of the website.  

(2) The Integrative Health Program Director or Program Champion

• We have a growing resource list.  The basics are in this post.
• When you are ready to dive deeper and into more specifics for a specialty or program or research and pilot studies in that specific field, please contact us via the website for the "Researcher's Resource List" and other specifics you are interested in, such as published citations of work.
• We recently (2018) started an interview series, to be identified with the keyword tag "interview series".  The first published interview is with Dr. John Burns of Aurora Health system of Wisconsin and their Emergency Department program.  If you, your program, or facility would like to sponsor or co-sponsor this series or similar work, contact me via the website.

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

(3) The Integrative Health Clinician interested in clinical metrics

• Courses:  we are creating short courses on basics of using metrics in clinical practice, based on feedback from the community
• Follow these tags/keywords in the blog and the website: 
• metrics, research literacy, study design, grants and funding, interview series, webinar series
• and look at suggestions in #4 below.

(4) The Graduate Student Looking to Understand more about Research in the Field 

• Check out the ideas at gifts for the graduate medical/healthcare student
• Research review blogposts:  
• 2018 acupuncture and fascia literature review
• biomechanisms of NSAIDs and electroacupuncture pain relief pathways
• Mel Hopper Koppleman and her work with EBA:
• The field of acupuncture research in 10 minutes
• Evidence based Acupuncture and EBA Connect
• Key papers to know when discussing acupuncture with a physician
• Meridians:  Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and their Researcher's Resource webpage
• See list from #3 and #1 above and 
• Books on Amazon or your Library
• If you are on a limited (grad student) budget, see if these are available through your local library in physical form or through Overdrive (electronic database public libraries and academic libraries subscribe to) or Libby (app)
• all the books listed in #1 above plus
• Research Design:  Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 5th edition by John Creswell
• Evidence-based Nursing:  The Research Practice Connection by Sarah Jo Brown
• Designing Clinical Research by Stephen B. Hulley
• Nursing Research:  Methods and Critical Appraisal for Evidence-based Practice by Geri LoBiondo-Wood, the award-winning 8th edition or the newer 9th edition.  

What is the Researcher's Resource List?

• This is a pdf compilation of citations of recommend resources for the beginning or established researcher interested in the field of integrative health and particularly acupuncture.  The list has been compiled with feedback from the Hospital practice Handbook Project community.  It contains favorite reads and resources on clinical research design, published research and pilot studies, and common research field issue discussions.  If you are interested in this pdf, send me a specific message through the contact page of the website.

Thank you for supporting this work!  You can support this work directly through the website from buying me a cup of coffee while I draft resources, supporting operating costs for a day, or sponsoring a newsletter.  Thank you. 

https://www.thehospitalhandbook.com/support-the-project/

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Related Information on Resources and/or Gift Ideas

• the Gift Idea page
• Integrative Medicine, the philanthropic movement into Mainstream Medicine--want to learn more?
• Creating Resources to Grow and Connect the Integrative Medicine Community
• Supporting our Hospital Administrators and Department Heads who are incorporating Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health professionals and paradigms into their programs

https://www.thehospitalhandbook.com/support-the-project/

Most Popular Posts of Autumn

Autumn Blogroll Review

For an update on the Hospital Practice Handbook Project work, please see In November, the Chum Salmon Run.

This Autumn, I did a series of posts related to the opioid epidemic as several major reference papers and recommendations for non-pharmacologic therapies from national organizations have come out over the past year.  Currently, the most popular of these posts is The Medication Review and Calculating the Morphine Equivalent Dose (MEQ) which, while reviewing how to recognize common opioid medications, also has links to several good resources on opioid safety training for both allied health and primary care providers.
Medication Review and Review of Systems:  Opioid Med side effects
The White Paper:  Acupuncture's Role in the Opioid Epidemic
Joint Commission Pain Management Standard update
37 Attorney Generals Push Incentives for Non-Pharm Pain Relief Therapy

The Lunchtime Listen series continues to be popular, particularly Duke University's Launching an Integrative Health Program.  Check out the latest installment of the series with Opioid Epidemic.


Previous Blogroll Reviews
Most Popular Posts of the Spring Fundraiser