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The healthcare industry is dealing with incredible change from both inside and outside the industry. Now more than ever, leaders need to embrace the concepts transformational leadership and make these concepts part of their DNA. Achieving success for every stakeholder requires leaders from all organizational levels to practice leader behaviors and go beyond traditional management techniques. Whether the reader is a seasoned or emerging leader, this book outlines some of the necessary ingredients required to lead employees through change. Reading this book not only provides a starting point for breaking contexts effecting the ability to practice, but also an opportunity to generate new research for scholars. Transformational leadership offers more than improving nurse retention, this leadership theory encompasses traits, behaviors, and skill from earlier theories and takes leadership to a new level.

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Bettina M. Fiery, Ed.D., RN: Studied Educational Leadership at University of Phoenix. Director of Organizational Development at Valley Health System, Virginia. Executive Coach.

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