Caring and curing by leadership design: How Mayo Clinic intentions become achievements
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
In a qualitative descriptive case study of the Mayo Clinic leadership, the authors identified four intentional characteristics of the multi-specialty group practice structure and culture that organically facilitate the development of leaders with the qualities required for the mission. The four characteristics are patient-centered organizational design, collaborative leadership structure, egalitarian leader selection process and team-based development system. The authors conclude that organization culture and design are important foundations of leadership development. Leadership development cannot be separated from the context and culture of organizational design. Mayo Clinic’s organizational and governance systems are designed to develop culturally aligned leaders, build social capital, grow employee engagement, foster collaboration, nurture collegiality and engender trust.
Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.
Originality/value
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Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Caring and curing by leadership design: How Mayo Clinic intentions become achievements”, published in Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, Vol. 30 No. 6, 2016. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “Leadership by design: intentional organization development of physician leaders”, by Stephen Swensen, Grace Gorringe, John Caviness, Dawn Peters, published in Journal of Management Development, Vol. 35 No. 4, 2016.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-08-2014-0080.
Citation
(2016), "Caring and curing by leadership design: How Mayo Clinic intentions become achievements", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 30 No. 6, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-08-2016-0082
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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