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December 1, 2020

Leadership Curriculum

Leadership and Business Principles Curriculum

This curriculum is designed for professionals that would like to develop and hone their skills in business and leadership. There are so many resources out there, this list is meant to narrow the focus into the highest yield resources available on the most utilized topics.


Book List (In recommended order)

  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People (Link)

  2. Extreme Ownership (Link)

  3. The Dichotomy of Leadership (Link)

  4. Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic (Link)

  5. Leadership Strategies and Tactics (Link) 

  6. Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare (Link)

  7. Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience (Link)

  8. The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (link)

  9. Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard (link)

  10. Competing Against Luck, Clay Christensen (link)

  11. High Output Management (link)

  12. Never split the difference (link)


Leadership


  • Leadership Basics

    • Putting Leadership into Action, Jocko Interview (Link)

    • Jocko Episode 192, Leadership with Sean Parnell (Link) 

    • Book: Extreme Ownership (Link)

    • Book: The Dichotomy of Leadership (Link)

    • Book: Leadership Strategies and Tactics (Link) 

    • Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Link)


  • Exemplary Leaders

    • Teddy roosevelt

      • Overview: 10 Theodore Roosevelt Leadership Lessons (Link)

      • Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership (Link)

    • Mayo Clinic

      • Book: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic (Link)

    • Jocko 

      • Podcast: Jocko Leadership and Discipline (link)


  • Communication Strategies For Leaders

    • Executive presence

      • Self-compassion will make you a better leader (Link)


  • Persuasive public speaking

    • Video: Public speaking of world’s top minds (link)


  • Difficult conversations

    • Superhuman feedback (link)


  • Negotiation

  • Book: Never split the difference (link)

  • Healthcare Leadership

    • Systematic Thinking

      • Lessons We Can Learn from Aviation Checklists (link)


  • Patient Experience

    • If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently (Link)


  • Organizational Change

    • Becoming the Change: Leadership Behavior Strategies for Continuous Improvement in Healthcare (Link)

    • Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience (Link)


  • Physician Leadership

    • Growing Physician Leaders: Empowering Doctors to Improve Our Healthcare (Link)

    • Good Leaders Ask Great Questions (Link)


Operational Strategy

  • Important Concepts:

    • Article: 80/20 rule (Link)

    • Article: Blue ocean (Link)


  • Accounting and Finance

  • Articles: 

  • How to Calculate a Return on Investment (ROI) (link)

  • Central Banking Explained (link)

  • Time Value of Money (link)

  • How to read a financial report (link)

  • Analyzing Financial Statements (link)

  • Opportunity Costs (link)

  • Enterprise Value & Market Value (link)

  • Employee Equity: Vesting (link)

  • What a CEO Does (link)

  • Margins (link)

  • Financing Options for Startups (link)

  • EBITDA (link)

  • Cap Tables (link)

  • Burn Rate (link)

  • The Board of Directors, Board Meetings (link)

  • Revenue Models (link)

  • Convertible Debt (link)

  • Valuation (link)

  • Revisiting The Term Sheet, Brad Feld (link)

  • Selling Your Company (link)

  • Strategic planning and execution

    • Article: Harvard Business Review: Strategy to Execution (Link) 

    • Article: Harvard Business Review: Strategy Execution (Link)

    • Strategy map key example: Balanced Scorecard (link)

    • SWOT analysis templates (link)

    • Article: SWOT analysis explanation (link) 

      • Strategic planning and thinking ahead with considering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT)


  • Crisis management

    • Audio: Decision making in a crisis – Jocko (link)

    • Audio: Making the ethical decision: Principled leadership (link)

    • Audio: Creativity in a crisis (link)


  • Measuring and reporting impact


  • Organizational change

    • 10 Principles of leading change (link)


  • Overcoming barriers

    • Antifragile teams: A how to (link)


  • Project management

    •  Resource management and Teams (Link)


  • Lean Management

  • Book: The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (link)


  • Quality

    • Book: Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard (link)

Teams

  • Incentivising People

    • Article: Behavioral economics to design incentives (link)


  • Effective mentoring

    • 6 Things Every Mentor Should Do (Link)


  • Management 

    • Book: High Output Management (link)


  • Conflict resolution and Communication

    • Radical Candor Summary (link)

Business Principles

  • Economics

    • Video: How the Economic Machine Works, Ray Dalio (link)


  • Innovation

    • Book: Competing Against Luck, Clay Christensen (link)


  • Marketing

  • Email Mastery (link)

  • The Impact of Marketing Strategies in Healthcare Systems (Link)


Startups


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