title: Complexity science and leadership in healthcare.
abstract: The emerging field of complexity science offers an alternative leadership strategy for the chaotic, complex healthcare environment. A survey revealed that healthcare leaders intuitively support principles of complexity science. Leadership that uses complexity principles offers opportunities in the chaotic healthcare environment to focus less on prediction and control and more on fostering relationships and creating conditions in which complex adaptive systems can evolve to produce creative outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, Calif., USA. burns.jamie@scrippshealth.org
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008875:Middle Aged