Healthy Voices Unhealthy Silence or Heroic Leadership

Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor

Author: Colleen Grogan

Public silence in policymaking can be deafening. When advocates for a disadvantaged group decline to speak up, not only are their concerns not recorded or acted upon, but also the collective strength of the unspoken argument is lessened-a situation that undermines the workings of deliberative democracy by reflecting only the concerns of more powerful interests.

In Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence, Colleen M. Grogan and Michael K. Gusmano address issues of public silence through the lens of state-level health care advocacy for the poor. They examine how representatives for the poor participate in an advisory board process by tying together existing studies; extensive interviews with key players; and an in-depth, firsthand look at the Connecticut Medicaid advisory board's deliberations during the managed care debate. Drawing on the concepts of deliberative democracy, agenda setting, and nonprofit advocacy, Grogan and Gusmano reveal the reasons behind advocates' often unexpected silence on major issues, assess how capable nonprofits are at affecting policy debates, and provide prescriptive advice for creating a participatory process that adequately addresses the health care concerns of the poor and dispossessed.

About the Author:
Colleen M. Grogan is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago

About the Author:
Michael K. Gusmano is assistant professor of health policy and management and Lauterstein Scholar in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

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Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

Author: Chris Lowney

Leadership is crucial to building organizations with staying power. In Heroic Leadership, author Chris Lowney examines organizational principles derived from the history and teachings of the Jesuits and applies them to modern corporate culture. Based on the four core values of self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism, this book identifies practices that sixteenth century priests developed to foster strong leaders and achieve longevity.

A Jesuit seminarian turned investment banker, Lowney recognized a tremendous lack of able leaders throughout his seventeen years of multinational management experience. By modeling the Jesuits' success, Lowney shares methods for molding innovative, ambitious leaders in the modern corporate environment.

Publishers Weekly

What can a 16th-century priest tell a 21st-century business executive about leadership? Plenty, believes this author, who points out that from a 10-man "company" founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuits are now the world's largest religious order, with 21,000 professionals. In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney, who left a seven-year stint as a Jesuit seminarian to become a managing director at J.P. Morgan, explores how the Jesuits have successfully grappled with challenges that test great companies-forging seamless multinational teams, motivating performance, being open to change and staying adaptable. As he takes the reader on an engaging romp through slices of Jesuit history, Lowney references four Jesuit pillars of success: self-awareness (reflection), ingenuity (embracing change), love (positive attitudes toward others) and heroism (energizing ambitions). Despite the emphasis on the four pillars, this is no formulaic "12-steps-to-success" tome. Rather than focusing on what leaders do, Lowney shows how the Jesuit approach focuses on who leaders are. His conversational voice draws the reader in as he unfolds leadership lessons from some unlikely Jesuit role models, including explorer Benedetto de Goes, linguist Matteo Ricci and mathematician and astronomer Christopher Clavius. Lowney's passion for history is appealing, and he is careful not to sugarcoat his historical role models. Professionals looking for a One-Minute type of business book won't find it here, but more reflective businesspeople of faith will find Lowney's insights a breath of fresh air. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	Of Jesuits and J. P. Morgan	1
2	What Leaders Do	13
3	The Jesuits: An Accidental Company with a Purposeful Vision	37
4	Leadership Role Models: Three Unlikely Case Studies	63
5	"To Order One's Life": Self-Awareness As the Foundation of Leadership	95
6	The Spiritual Exercises: A Lifelong Development Tool	113
7	"The Whole World Becomes Our House": How Ingenuity Sparks Innovation, Creativity, and a Global Mindset	127
8	"Refuse No Talent, Nor Any Man of Quality": How Love Uncovers Talent and Unites Teams	169
9	"An Uninterrupted Life of Heroic Deeds": How Heroic Leaders Envision the Impossible - and Do It	203
10	"Exceptional Daring Was Essential": How the End of Risk Taking Almost Ended the Jesuits	229
11	"The Way We Do Things": Four Core Values, but One Integrated Life	245
12	Conclusion	277
	Acknowledgments	297
	Notes	299
	Suggestions for Further Reading	313
	Index	321