Managing health care organizations: Where professionalism meets complexityscience

This article examines the intersection of professionalism and complexity sc ience as a source of new insights for improving the health cave industry fr om both a clinical and business point of view. Viewing health care organiza tions as professional complex adaptive systems suggests eight leadership ta sks for addressing the circumstances that engulf health care. Managers who adopt this view will be able to create new levers for positive movement in their organizations.