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	The Excellent Board Karen Gardner, Editor Pracitcal Solutions For Healthcare The Excellent Board is a sourcebook every health care CEO, trustee and director should have on their desk. It contains 48 timely articles covering the key areas they must consider as they fulfill their responsibilities. The Excellent Board is a collection of Trustee magazine’s best and most recently published articles. It covers topics vitally important to a board’s success —board composition, the governance process and trustee education, board/CEO relations, board work, finance, quality, patient safety, and strategic planning. Ordering information for book.
	Ethical Governance In Healthcare: A Board Leadership Guide Roger A Ritvo, Joal D Ohlsen, M.D. and Thomas P. Holland, Ph.D. A timely guide that provides practical help for establishing effective, accountable governance within an ethical framework. Ethical Governance in Health Care helps boards of trustees and CEOs navigate their leadership roles in response to the changing legal, moral, and ethical climate in health care organizations. This book will helps restore the high ethical values and public confidence health care institutions have traditionally enjoyed. Ordering information for book.
	The Baptist Healthcare Journey To Excellence Al Stubblefield An insider's look at corporate culture at one of Fortune's Top 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. A business can purchase, imitate, or replicate most of its elements, but when a business places its competitive advantage with its people, it can become the market leader. The Baptist Health Care Journey to Excellence illustrates how Baptist Health Care went from a customer satisfaction rating of less than 20 percent to being consistently ranked in the 99 percent range. Written by the man who made it happen, this book sets benchmarks and best practices for organizations to measure themselves against by creating a service-centered culture that cares first and foremost about customer satisfaction. Ordering information for book.
	Essentials of Healthcare Organization Finance Authors: Dennis D. Pointer, PhD and Dennis M. Stillman Finally! The book that all health care board members needed but were afraid to ask for! Those dark days of staring at incomprehensible numbers during board meetings, of nervous nodding when their financially-literate brethren make comments or ask questions, of voting on things that they do not understand are gone! Ordering information for book.
	Getting to Great Authors: Dennis D. Pointer, PhD and James E. Orlikoff Dennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, have written a definitive guide for health care boards that want to maximize their performance and help their organizations reach full potential. Getting to Great presents a set of easily applied principles and best practices based on a model that has been proven to strengthen health care governance. Ordering information for book.
	Leaders Talk Leadership Corporate Author: Meredith D. Ashby Leaders Talk Leadership is an impressive collection of interviews with some of the world’s most respected corporate leaders and management scholars. Edited by Ashby and Miles of the preeminent executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles, this compilation of thought leadership spanning industries and geographies addresses the key issues facing executives today such as governance, leadership and strategy, how to lead in volatile times or through a corporate transformation, how to best leverage human capital, and how to achieve competitive advantage in today’s environment. Ordering information for book.
	The Essential Guide to Managing Consultants Author: Michael E. Rindler Should you hire a consultant? How do you select the right consultant? How can you get the most value for your consulting dollars? Get straightforward answers to your consulting questions with THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MANAGING CONSULTANTS: STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE LEADERS. Ordering information for book.
	The Health Care Industry: A Primer for Board Members Authors: Dennis D. Pointer, PhD and Stephen J. Williams The Health Care Industry offers board members a comprehensive resource that clearly explains how health services are organized, financed, and provided. This much-needed resource contains a wealth of information and explains board responsibilities. Describes organizations that provide health services such as ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, health systems and public health agencies. Ordering information for book.
	Board Work Authors: Dennis D. Pointer, PhD and James E. Orlikoff Concrete recommendations for implementing benchmark governance systems and practices. Written by the two best-known governance consultants, BOARD WORK is rich with prescriptive information and practical ideas, exercises and examples - providing expert coaching that boards need to do their best work and make a real impact on their organizations. Ordering information for book.
	The High Performance Board Authors: Dennis D. Pointer, PhD and James E. Orlikoff While boards acknowledge they bear ultimate responsibility and accountability for their organizations' affairs, governance quality is often far from optimal. The High- Performance Boardoffers pragmatic and candid advice about what your board must do to maximize performance and contributions. The authors provide sixty-four principles designed to help your board achieve peak performance. They describe every principle in detail and present best practices and practical applications for each one. Each section of the book concludes with a board check-up-a set of questions that can be used to assess your board in light of the principles. A quick read for busy board members, this book is the ultimate board "drivers' manual." Ordering information for book.
	Governance as Leadership Authors: Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. Taylor A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards. Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less micromanagement. It serves boards as both a resource of fresh approaches to familiar territory and a lucid guide to important new territory, and provides a road map that leads nonprofit trustees and executives to governance as leadership. Ordering information for book.
	Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofits: A Guide to Building Competitive Advantage Authors: Peggy M. Jackson, Toni E. Fogarty A complete guide to leveraging the power of Sarbanes-Oxley--specifically for nonprofits The first book to discuss the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation as it relates to nonprofit organizations, Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofits is an essential guide for all nonprofit executives and boards who want to know how the new legislation can enhance their organization's mission. Ordering information for book.
	Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage Author: Ram Charan Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governance down to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance and best-selling author, packs this book with useful tools and techniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level of performance. Charan puts his finger on a growing problem for boards: the disconnect between directors' efforts and their results. The added time and attention boards invest is not translating into better governance that is, governance that adds value to the business. Ordering information for book.