Case Study Of The Cleveland Clinic

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Abstract
Bringing a company or organization from a traditional style of leadership to a very different one, like that of serving leadership, is not an easy job. Some issues are addressed in a direct way only when there is no other way to go but to mix together the people who have a lot of experience in a sector and must feel in a winning team, having maturity and minds ready to support a change.

Introduction
The Cleveland Clinic is one of the cases that emerged in the last few years in which leadership had to be transformed from a narrow shape to a pyramid, into something new. The previous and striking case was that although it was a hospital excellence, the Cleveland Clinic with its 44,000 employees in various locations achieved a very low …show more content…

There was a decisive change of direction and the leadership decided to introduce what could best solve the problem, the serving leadership, starting from a work of socialization starting from the average levels of management, and then facing the introduction in the summer of 2008 with reservations by some doctors. Third Rivers Partner was the appropriate external advisory agency to make this change: support for change, exploit the strengths of others, bigger goals, is visionary (Patrnchak, …show more content…

Although the substantial contribution of the serving leader is applicable in some cases, this does not always find fertile ground or meets various problems related to the management of resources that do not include the new point of view. Then the serving leader is called upon to resolve and settle these obstacles, especially those dear to Weber of bureaucratic or autocratic leadership (Elliker, 2016). Essentially, the serving leadership foresees the growth of talent throughout the organization, thriving with the growth of others (Elliker,

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