Visionary Leadership in Health:
Delivering Superior Value
Jay Satia
Moi Lee Liow
This book presents a visionary leadership framework and its application toward delivering superior
value in health. It provides a road map on how to create shared vision, assess vision–reality gap,
identify paths to pursue, inspire, and empower stakeholders, and utilize results-based management
to deliver superior value.
By linking leadership and management in health rather than juxtaposing them, the book argues that the task of every health professional requires a mix of leadership and management, although their relative emphasis may vary as per the context and content of the health programme. The book will equip health professionals to not only improve personal
performance but also enhance the value that their health programmes will generate for their beneficiaries.
Part I Leadership: Delivering Superior Results in Health
Chapter 1. Strengthened Leadership and Political Will for Better Health
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It makes a case for strengthened leadership because of inadequate progress in improving health.
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Examples of leadership at different levels of health system illustrate that leaders can make a difference.
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Leaders create shared vision among, align values of, coordinate practices/behaviours, and leverage resources of stakeholders.
Chapter 2. Leadership and Management: What Leaders Need to Do
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It provides a framework for visionary leadership.
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The framework comprises of leadership – crate shared vision, analyse vision-reality gap, find the path to bridge the gap, and inspire/empower stakeholders – and Management – set objectives, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate.
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Every leader performs both leadership and management tasks but the mix will differ depending upon the context.
Chapter 4. Analyzing Vision–Reality Gap
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Leaders see the ‘big picture’ when they assess vision-reality gap using performance trends over time, geography and organization levels.
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Systems thinking is needed to analyse the gap.
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Root cause analysis will help develop ways to reduce the gap.
Chapter 6. Inspiring and Empowering Stakeholders
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This chapter argues that inspiring and empowering stakeholders is necessary to pursue the path for achieving the shared vision.
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Then it discusses how leaders can inspire and how inspiring differs from motivating.
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Finally, it shows how leaders empower to produce fundamental change.
Chapter 8. Delivering Superior Results: Applying the visionary leadership framework
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It discusses ways to apply the framework through several examples.
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First, case studies to apply the framework for achieving universal health coverage and universalization of elementary education in India are provided.
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This is followed by examples of domestic violence and youth reproductive health.
PART II. LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
Chapter 10. Public Health Leadership Attributes
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Public health leaders need to demonstrate transparency, integrity and honesty in all actions.
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Public health leaders need to apply social justice and human rights principles.
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Public health leaders need to engage and learn from others to advance public health goals.
