Hospital and Health Care Finance Term Paper

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Farson, Richard. Management of the Absurd. With a forward by Michael Crichton. New York, 1997.

In his book, provocatively entitled Management of the Absurd, the author Richard Farson attempts to demonstrate that management is often a deceptively simple science, despite attempts by other business gurus of leadership to state otherwise and render the meaning of leadership into complex formulas and intricately worded principles. Intriguingly, Farson structures his book upon what he defines as paradoxes of leadership that are present within any organization, dealing with emotional rather than rational aspects of organizational behavior.

Some of these insights take the form of slogans, such as "the more we communicate, the less we communicate.
" By this, Farson means that quite often, the more an organization is structured to lead by formulized talking, through a constant resorting to the protocol of committee meetings and the re-hearing of differences, the less gets done in actual, practical terms. Rather than effective managers constantly policing employees through the use of red tape and bureaucracy, effective managers delegate authority with an ear and an eye to human differences, rather than human standardization. This embracing of paradox is perhaps best found in Farson's recommendation that "once….....

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