Books

Life

Life should be a voyage of self-discovery and self-expression, not a race up a career ladder or a long slog toward retirement.

The Wind in Your Sails includes the most important life and leadership skills I’ve learned, practiced, and taught over the past 50 years.

It’s a book that can be used as a guide for the journey, or that can be opened to any page where the reader will often find the message they most need to hear that day.

Coming this April.

Advance orders now being taken for Nurses and Hospital Week (minimum order 100).

Leadership

Management is a job description. Leadership is a life decision. And in today’s turbulent and fast-changing world, we need leadership in every corner, not just in the corner office.

In The Heart of a Nurse Leader, Dr. Bob Dent and I share guiding principles for values-based leadership in nursing.

The book’s outline is based on the 60-module Values Coach course on The Twelve Core Action Values.

Culture

A culture of ownership is the ultimate competitive advantage for recruiting and retention, for operating performance and financial outcomes.

In Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare, Dr. Bob Dent and I prescribe a step-by-step process for designing and implementing a Cultural Blueprint for the Invisible Architecture of values, culture, and attitude.

The new 3rd edition is updated to cover challenges created by the pandemic and its aftermath.

Selected as Book of the Year by both the American Journal of Nursing and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Entrepreneurship

The DAISY Foundation is one of the world’s most revered healthcare brands, and an exemplar of how a culture of ownership inspires people to go above and beyond.

This book is a spinoff from a team of grad students at U Iowa College of Public Health that completed a case study on The DAISY Foundation.

The book uses the Growth-Impact Model to describe how DAISY has had a worldwide impact on healthcare culture, and how that model can be used to plan and assess the growth and impact of any organization.

Also includes 30 Key Business Practices that transformed DAISY from startup to nonprofit unicorn.