Principled Leadership in Mental Health Systems and Programs
 William Anthony and Kevin Huckshorn
Why do some organizations prosper while others deteriorate? Why do some flourish during a period of change while others calcify? Why do some, previously
known for their mediocrity, become exemplary?
While there have been many attempts to answer these questions in the corporate, for-profit world, Anthony and Huckshorn set out to find out what makes a difference in the world of mental health. More specifically, they wanted to learn how mental health organizations become successful and responsive systems of care that are recovery oriented, consumer centered, and non-coercive.
To this end, Anthony and Huckshorn interviewed leaders at all levels in the mental health field who have shown the ability to transform their organizations—federal administrators, commissioners, agency directors, program managers. What they found is that big or small, public or private, and independent of
professional discipline— it’s the quality and effectiveness of its leadership that fuels a
successful organization.
From their extensive interviews with these exemplary leaders, Anthony and Huckshorn
advance eight leadership principles and accompanying tasks that they found to be
critical for effective leadership. They contend that staff at all levels can become the “CEO” in their own spheres of influence, and they provide the template for doing so. While Anthony and Huckshorn focus specifically on the field of mental health, the principles advanced in Principled Leadership are relevant and critical to effective leadership in all organizations.
Principled Leadership is recommended for educators, directors, managers, or anyone interested in becoming a leader or improving his/her leadership skills.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter/Principle 1 Leaders communicate a shared vision.
- Chapter/Principle 2 Leaders centralize by mission and decentralize by operations.
- Chapter/Principle 3 Leaders create an organizational culture that identifies and tries to live by key values.
- Chapter/Principle 4 Leaders create an organizational structure and culture that empowers their employees and themselves.
- Chapter/Principle 5 Leaders ensure that staff are trained in a human technology that can translate vision into reality.
- Chapter/Principle 6 Leaders relate constructively to employees.
- Chapter/Principle 7 Leaders access and use information to make change a constant ingredient of their organization.
- Chapter/Principle 8 Leaders build their organization around exemplary performers.
- Conclusion
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©2008, 272 pages, hardcover, ISBN: 978-1-878512-22-2
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Anthony, W.A. & Huckshorn, K.A. (2008). Principled Leadership. Boston: Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
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