Unconventional Leadership, Nancy M. Schlichting
Unconventional Leadership, Nancy M. Schlichting
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Unconventional Leadership
What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me about Reinvention and Diversity

Author: Nancy M. Schlichting

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/01/2016


Synopsis

What does it take to lead the successful turnaround of four consecutive organizations? What does it take to run a $5 billion business in Detroit as the city struggles to emerge from municipal bankruptcy and its worst ongoing crisis ever? What does it take to be a female CEO who has come up against discrimination and personal attack? It takes Unconventional Leadership, a style of leadership based on confronting reality and leading headlong through adversity. In this inspiring story, innovative LGBT leader Nancy Schlichting, the CEO of Henry Ford Health System, reveals her unique strategies that drive success: maintaining a focus on people, creating a culture of innovation and reinvention, and embracing diversity as a key strategy for growth.

The audiobook describes a leadership paradigm that will motivate, inspire, and drive new thinking in today's disruptive business environment where traditional modes of managing are no longer working. In Unconventional Leadership, Schlichting weaves together three themes that explain how she has become one of the most powerful individuals in healthcare today: (1) deftly conquering the immense challenges within the healthcare industry itself—consolidation, new models of delivery and financing, increasing government regulation and oversight, changing customer expectations, and pressures on cost and quality (2) the exciting and panoramic backdrop of Henry Ford and Detroit—Ford’s legacy of invention and innovation combined with ongoing attempts to restore and renew a city in deep decline; and (3) forging a career path and excelling as an LGBT and female CEO in a world typically dominated by men.

An abiding fan of the underdog, Schlichting reveals, above all else, the sheer grit and determination required to lead through adversity and create a successful legacy of leadership.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erika on June 09, 2021

If this wasn't a book I had to read for work I never would have picked it up least of all finish it. This book is more of a humble brag autobiography in relation to being a CEO of HFHS And less a book on women being leaders. If you are looking at this title thinking people in your company "specifica......more

Goodreads review by Codi on April 24, 2019

Not a page-turner as it’s not particularly interesting or well-written. Nancy has a lot to be proud of in her career, and her leadership and story are certainly very inspirational for a young, female minority in healthcare administration like myself. However, I feel that this book was more for her t......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on May 10, 2021

I don’t know if it was the reader of the audiobook that made it dull or the writing. I thought I was gonna have a lot in common with this person, we’re both lesbians, we’re both business people but no I really didn’t feel akin to her at all.......more