Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond

Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond

by Marc Harrison
Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond

Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond

by Marc Harrison

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Overview

From a visionary leader comes a game-changing guide to help you face your fears, transcend discord and polarization, and drive positive systemic and societal change

When Marc Harrison became CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest health systems, the organization was financially sound and had a sterling reputation for delivering excellent care. But Harrison wasn’t content to uphold that reputation; he knew it could be even better. As an IRONMAN triathlete, he had a drive to push boundaries; as a two-time cancer survivor, he had a deeper empathy for patients and a greater sense of urgency. Harrison led an ambitious transformation that has unleashed Intermountain’s workforce not only to improve the organization but to look beyond it and tackle a range of problems that have plagued both the industry and our broader society. Bucking the prevailing culture of conflict and polarization, leaders at all levels are empowered to convene diverse stakeholders in unorthodox ways to solve problems that affect everyone.

In Possibility Unleashed, you’ll learn what happens when you:

  • Walk in others’ shoes
  • Embrace an outsider’s perspective
  • Look in the mirror
  • Fix what isn’t broken . . . yet
  • Unlock the genius at the bedside (or at the front line)
  • Ask “What if?”
  • Make “frenemies”
  • Go upstream
  • Stand up for what’s right
  • Color outside the (red and blue) lines

You’ll find real-life examples of how this works in action—from a liberal, Harvard-trained program manager partnering with a leading gun rights advocate to address the issue of firearm-assisted suicides to a healthcare organization fighting high prices and drug shortages by working with its competitors to establish a not-for-profit generic drug company that benefits all. And while other health systems stand by as their communities struggle with poverty, crime, and other seemingly nonmedical issues, Intermountain is investing millions to address them, recognizing that they in turn profoundly affect people’s health. It’s a radical approach to leadership that shuns the status quo to create lasting transformative change. In Possibility Unleashed, you’ll discover the blueprint to making a far greater impact on society than you’d imagined while also building strong, financially healthy organizations where people love to work.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781264646821
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 01/17/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 784 KB

About the Author

Marc Harrison, MD, president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, is a pediatric critical care physician and international thought leader on healthcare system transformation and innovation. In 2019, he was recognized among Fortune’s Top 50 World’s Greatest Leaders and ranked second among Modern Healthcare’s Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders; in 2018, he tied for second on Modern Healthcare’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. Previously, Dr. Harrison served as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Before that, he was chief of international business development and chief medical operations officer at Cleveland Clinic.


Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Walk in Others' Shoes 1

2 Embrace an Outsider's Perspective 23

3 Look in the Mirror 43

4 Fix What Isn't Broken … Yet 63

5 Unlock the Genius at the Bedside (or at the front line) 85

6 Ask "What If?" 107

7 Make "Frenemies" 127

8 What is Growth? and is it Always Good? 149

9 Go Upstream 169

10 Stand up for What's Right 189

11 Color 0utside The Red and Blue Lines 209

Conclusion: Unleashing Ourselves 229

Acknowledgments 235

Notes 239

Index 255

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