CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S REPORT

Chief nurse executives need contemporary informatics competencies.

Using the Informatics Organizing Research Model (Effken, 2003) to add context to the information gleaned from ethnographic interviews of seven chief nurse executives (CNEs) currently leading integrated delivery systems, the author concluded nurse executives can no longer depend exclusively on American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) competencies as they outsource their responsibility fo...

Health Management Information Systems Executives: Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Information Officers in Healthcare Services Organizations

Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives

Individual differences in intelligence are consistently associated with leader performance, including the assessed performance of presidents of the United States. Given this empirical significance, IQ scores were estimated for all 42 chief executives from George Washington to G. W. Bush. The scores were obtained by applying missing-values estimation methods (expectation-maximization) to publish...

Organizational Collaboration in the Public Sector: Do Chief Executives Make a Difference?

Upper echelons theory suggests that the characteristics of chief executives affect the strategic choices of their organizations. In this paper we examine whether the characteristics of top managers make a difference to the extent of inter-organizational collaboration in the public sector. Using survey data from 228 chief executives from Catalonia, we test upper echelons theory, and control for ...

Doctors who become chief executives in the NHS: from keen amateurs to skilled professionals.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the experiences of doctors who become chief executives of NHS organizations, with the aim of understanding their career paths and the facilitators and barriers encountered along the way. DESIGN Twenty-two medical chief executives were identified and of these 20 were interviewed. In addition two former medical chief executives were interviewed. Information was collect...