Chapter 1: Authentic leadership for value-based healthcare

This chapter describes the importance of leadership in implementing value-based healthcare through authentic leadership principles. It discusses definitions, contemporary literature on the topic, and the change management implications that need to be considered by leaders, who have a very important role in supporting value-based healthcare. Talent management principles and techniques in the form of recruiting and selecting the right leaders and their team members to achieve the objectives of value-based healthcare are described and applied via some case scenarios, and the key implications for leadership practice are identified and discussed.

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