title: Administering a national medical association: the joys, the sorrows, and other challenges.
abstract: One of the key factors in successful administration of a large national association involves the judicial use of implicit power. Failures can occur from aggressivity as well as from passivity, and too great an enjoyment of power can lead to maladaptive administrative practices.
authors.affiliation: American Psychiatric Association.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sabshin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States