System Innovation: A Holistic Approach to Disrupting With Love and Human Caring, by Julie Kennedy Oehlert and Kathleen Sitzman.

Abstract

The bright vision presented by this book provides an invigorating push to bring out the inner anarchist hidden in even the most complacent of health professionals. This book renews the ongoing discussion of how theory-driven change can be used to ground and promote the integration of love and human caring into system innovation. Each chapter of this book provides concrete and realistic application strategies to front-line practice and gives intensive guidance on how to linguistically and intellectually challenge the barriers within an organization that can undermine a vision of holistic caring. For leaders of teams, this book provides invaluable tools to build a culture of caring and maintain a team that perceives caring from both leadership and the organization as a whole. For team members, this book is a reminder that an expectation of workplace culture that is positive, supportive, and fosters growth is not out of reach; it simply has yet to be implemented within their system.