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Pride and Joy
Description: Alex Knight offers solutions to a very ailing healthcare environment. This is a book that actually offers the reader practical and real solutions. Post Francis report there is still so much to learn and gain within the NHS. This is not a text book of how to do, but a novel of how the late Eli Goldratt’s theory of management can be applied to the healthcare setting.
Highlights:
I found I could not put this book down – was not expecting this, I thought this would be hard to endure. Just how wrong I was. It give the reader a chance to stop and think, and that instead of throwing money at an ailing organisation there are real changes that can be made. All is not lost. I think in the thick of things you cannot always see the wood for the trees. This book gives the inspiration and solutions to make a difference.
Strengths and weaknesses:
The strengths of this book are both practical and enjoyable at the same time. It is realistic and focuses on behaviours as well that we can all identity with. Instead of feeling ground down by system, the book gives a sense of real hope. Within the healthcare environment there are real challenges such as a population living longer but with more complex issues and conditions and so many targets you do not know where to turn to next.
The author has written this book in the style of Goldratt’s ‘The Goal’ as a business novel but applies this so well to healthcare in the 21st century.
The author does not dismiss staff as a problem but acknowledges staff are trying so hard. They are caring, but systems do not allow them to carry out their jobs as well as they would like. Somewhere along the way we forget the reason we are in the healthcare setting is for patients.
Potential Readers:
All staff from students to chief executives who work in the healthcare setting must make a point to read this book- there is hope if we pull together.
Highlights:
I found I could not put this book down – was not expecting this, I thought this would be hard to endure. Just how wrong I was. It give the reader a chance to stop and think, and that instead of throwing money at an ailing organisation there are real changes that can be made. All is not lost. I think in the thick of things you cannot always see the wood for the trees. This book gives the inspiration and solutions to make a difference.
Strengths and weaknesses:
The strengths of this book are both practical and enjoyable at the same time. It is realistic and focuses on behaviours as well that we can all identity with. Instead of feeling ground down by system, the book gives a sense of real hope. Within the healthcare environment there are real challenges such as a population living longer but with more complex issues and conditions and so many targets you do not know where to turn to next.
The author has written this book in the style of Goldratt’s ‘The Goal’ as a business novel but applies this so well to healthcare in the 21st century.
The author does not dismiss staff as a problem but acknowledges staff are trying so hard. They are caring, but systems do not allow them to carry out their jobs as well as they would like. Somewhere along the way we forget the reason we are in the healthcare setting is for patients.
Potential Readers:
All staff from students to chief executives who work in the healthcare setting must make a point to read this book- there is hope if we pull together.
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300 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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February 27, 2019
Good stuff and fairly well-written. There were a few odd transition and jumps that made me wonder if I had missed a page. Longer review on my blog: https://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2014/...
March 27, 2018
As someone working in the NHS I can certainly recognise a lot of the things that Alex covers in this and it is s great way of setting out some of the issues we face in the health service. It is slightly sad how quickly some things move on - the novel starts with the hospital losing its CEO as their A&E performance has dropped below 90%, given so many of our hospitals are struggling to even achieve 80% these days it makes 2014 seem like halcyon days!
January 4, 2024
Pride and joy is a gem to understand the concepts of healthcare management in the form of a novel. Making it fun to read and to understand the concepts of the theory of constraints. It is indeed a great read for any person in healthcare management. Might help be part of a solution one day!! However is it the ultimate solution? Surely not
March 12, 2018
Loaned to me by a colleague; Interesting take on some issues we deal with at work, so it was interesting to me.
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August 5, 2022NEED THE HARD COPY , EBOOK ? ANY LINKS ?
June 29, 2014
Description: Alex Knight offers solutions to a very ailing healthcare environment. This is a book that actually offers the reader practical and real solutions. Post Francis report there is still so much to learn and gain within the NHS. This is not a text book of how to do, but a novel of how the late Eli Goldratt’s theory of management can be applied to the healthcare setting.
Highlights:
I found I could not put this book down – was not expecting this, I thought this would be hard to endure. Just how wrong I was. It give the reader a chance to stop and think, and that instead of throwing money at an ailing organisation there are real changes that can be made. All is not lost. I think in the thick of things you cannot always see the wood for the trees. This book gives the inspiration and solutions to make a difference.
Strengths and weaknesses:
The strengths of this book are both practical and enjoyable at the same time. It is realistic and focuses on behaviours as well that we can all identity with. Instead of feeling ground down by system, the book gives a sense of real hope. Within the healthcare environment there are real challenges such as a population living longer but with more complex issues and conditions and so many targets you do not know where to turn to next.
The author has written this book in the style of Goldratt’s ‘The Goal’ as a business novel but applies this so well to healthcare in the 21st century.
The author does not dismiss staff as a problem but acknowledges staff are trying so hard. They are caring, but systems do not allow them to carry out their jobs as well as they would like. Somewhere along the way we forget the reason we are in the healthcare setting is for patients.
Potential Readers:
All staff from students to chief executives who work in the healthcare setting must make a point to read this book- there is hope if we pull together.
Highlights:
I found I could not put this book down – was not expecting this, I thought this would be hard to endure. Just how wrong I was. It give the reader a chance to stop and think, and that instead of throwing money at an ailing organisation there are real changes that can be made. All is not lost. I think in the thick of things you cannot always see the wood for the trees. This book gives the inspiration and solutions to make a difference.
Strengths and weaknesses:
The strengths of this book are both practical and enjoyable at the same time. It is realistic and focuses on behaviours as well that we can all identity with. Instead of feeling ground down by system, the book gives a sense of real hope. Within the healthcare environment there are real challenges such as a population living longer but with more complex issues and conditions and so many targets you do not know where to turn to next.
The author has written this book in the style of Goldratt’s ‘The Goal’ as a business novel but applies this so well to healthcare in the 21st century.
The author does not dismiss staff as a problem but acknowledges staff are trying so hard. They are caring, but systems do not allow them to carry out their jobs as well as they would like. Somewhere along the way we forget the reason we are in the healthcare setting is for patients.
Potential Readers:
All staff from students to chief executives who work in the healthcare setting must make a point to read this book- there is hope if we pull together.
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April 16, 2019Fantastic book on TOC on Healthcare in the best tradition of The Goal. A must to read specially for those involved in Healthcare systems
Very good story and book. Another great Theory Of Constraints (TOC) novel in the already experienced tradition of The Goal. With this book TOC stands as the main way management should look at Healthcare systems all over the world. A must read for all managers in the Healthcare and and outside of it. Congratulations Alex Knigh for such a fantastic reading
Very good story and book. Another great Theory Of Constraints (TOC) novel in the already experienced tradition of The Goal. With this book TOC stands as the main way management should look at Healthcare systems all over the world. A must read for all managers in the Healthcare and and outside of it. Congratulations Alex Knigh for such a fantastic reading
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