Complexity Leadership: Nursings Role in Health-Care Delivery, Second Edition

Learning Objectives
Illustrate how complex adaptive systems impact nursing leadership situations.
Apply complex science concepts to theoretical models used by organizational environments.
Correlate ideas held by developers of the major management theories during the 20th century with their influence on systems theory.
Apply concepts of complexity leadership models to the role of a contemporary healthcare leader.
Illustrate the use of organizational culture, change agents, and change theories within the framework of complex adaptive systems.
Demonstrate specific actions from a variety of communication methods for promotion of successful working relationships.
Correlate leadership and personal behaviors with characteristics of a complex adaptive system.
Employ key aspects of congruence, cognitive dissonance, wheel of life, and butterfly power/small changes in the nurses personal and professional lives.
Translate concepts of nurturance, centering, risk taking, self-care, and detachment into steps of growth for the complexity leader.
Identify general characteristics of complexity in leaders perspective, leadership style, and fundamental behavior.