title: Complexity leadership: a healthcare imperative.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The healthcare system is plagued with increasing cost and poor quality outcomes. A major contributing factor for these issues is that outdated leadership practices, such as leader-centricity, linear thinking, and poor readiness for innovation, are being used in healthcare organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Complexity leadership theory provides a new framework with which healthcare leaders may practice leadership. Complexity leadership theory conceptualizes leadership as a continual process that stems from collaboration, complex systems thinking, and innovation mindsets.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared to transactional and transformational leadership concepts, complexity leadership practices hold promise to improve cost and quality in health care.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85044, USA. dan.weberg@asu.edu
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weberg
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013598:Systems Theory