Reclaiming Your Future: Entrepreneurial Thinking in Health Care

Author: Edward J. O'Connor, PhD and C. Marlena Fiol, PhD

Non Member Price: $45.00

Member Price: $30.00 - You Save $15.00

 

Reclaiming Your Future: Entrepreneurial Thinking in Health Care

This is a book about entrepreneurial thinking and its application to health care settings. It is a book about building an enduring success. It is about entrepreneurial leadership, ways of thinking and approaches used to produce success by entrepreneurs, and application of these ideas to the world of health care, which is desperately in need of new answers to ever-increasing challenges. The purpose of this book is to view health care challenges through the lens of entrepreneurial solutions so that current challenges and opportunities open the door to an ever-stronger and more effective health care delivery system.

120 Pages © 2002

Table of Contents

Section One
Entrepreneurship: A Possible Source of New Answers

Chapter 1
Following the Herd: Common Answers and Typical Outcomes

• Compromise and Avoidance: The Route to Short-Term Disappointment and Long-Term Failure
• Following the Herd: A Tunnel with Little Cheese
  
  

Chapter 2
Entrepreneurs: Who Are They and What Leads to Their Success?

• Entrepreneurial Thinking in Action: Some Examples
• Entrepreneurial Thinking in Health Care: What Might It Look Like
  
  

Chapter 3
Entrepreneurial Thinking: The Alchemy Required to Transform Dreams into Success

Chapter 4
Creating Focus: Tested Tools for Entrepreneurial Success

• Findings from Other Fields
• Focusing Attention in Organizations
• Core Values: The Foundation for Your Future
• Purpose: Your Reason for Being
• Vision: What You Will Have Created by a Specific Point in Time
• Goals: Measurable Steps to Your Well-Articulated Dream
• Implementation: Making It Real for Your People
  
  

Section Two
Assembling Your Success Components

Chapter 5
Generating Ideas: The Foundation for Creating New Wealth

• The Challenge
• New Ideas: Examples of What Others Are Doing
• Investments in Distinctive Ideas
• New Technologies: Another Place to Look for Entrepreneurial Ideas
• Sources of Entrepreneurial Ideas
• Stimulating Creativity in Your Organization
• Creativity Challenge
• Looking Forward
  
  

Chapter 6
Screening Your Venture Ideas: Separating Nice Ideas from Worthy Opportunities

• Evaluation Dimensions: The Big Picture
• External and Internal Criteria
  
  

Chapter 7
Investing in People: An Often Overlooked Competitive Advantage

• Leading the Team
• Internal Partners: The Core Foundation
• Involving Your People to Get the Most from Your Investment
• Building Partnerships with Your People
• Nurturing Your Valued Asset: Caring for Your People
• External Partners: Expanding Your Base of Support
• Using Outsiders: Others Who Are Important to an Entrepreneur’s Success
• Looking Forward
  
  

Chapter 8
Financing Your Venture: Sources and Uses of Funding

• Raising Money: Some Basic Questions
• Sources of Funds: Where Will Your Money Come From?
• Attracting Investors: Putting Your Best Foot Forward
• Managing the Money You Have
• What Is Your Venture Worth?
• In Summary
  
  

Section Three
Applying Your Resources: Planning and Growing Your Venture

Chapter 9
Strategic Thinking: Envisioning Possibilities, Clarifying Capabilities, and Choosing Your Path

• Strategic Thinking: What You Will Do and How You Will Do It
• External Trends
• Attractiveness of Opportunities
• Strategic Options
• Business Plans
• Looking Back and Looking Forward
  
  

Chapter 10
Growing Your Venture: Wonderful Dream or Deadly Nightmare

• An Investment Opportunity
• Rapid Growth and Its Management Challenges
• Growth Building Blocks: Drivers and Locations
• Growth Transitions: Times of Opportunity and Danger
• Harvesting Your Venture: A Plan for Moving On
• The Art Form Called Growth: A Summary
  
  

Chapter 11
Entrepreneurship in Health Care: Some Final Thoughts