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Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations [Hardcover]

Leonard Berry (Author), Kent Seltman (Author)
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May 19, 2008

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic reveals for the first time how this complex service organization fosters a culture that exceeds customer expectations and earns deep loyalty from both customers and employees. Service business authority Leonard Berry and Mayo Clinic marketing administrator Kent Seltman explain how the Clinic implements and maintains its strategy, adheres to its management system, executes its care model, and embraces new knowledge - invaluable lessons for managers and service providers of all industries.

Drs. Berry and Seltman had the rare opportunity to study Mayo Clinic's service culture and systems from the inside by conducting personal interviews with leaders, clinicians, staff, and patients, as well as observing hundreds of clinician-patient interactions. The result is a book about how the Clinic's business concept produces stellar clinical results, organizational efficiency, and interpersonal service.

By examining the operating principles that guide every management decision at this legendary healthcare institution, the authors

  • Demonstrate how a great service brand evolves from the core values that nourish and protect it
  • Extrapolate instructive business lessons that apply outside healthcare
  • Illustrate the benefits of pooling talent and encouraging teamwork
  • Relate historical events and perspectives to the present-day Mayo Clinic
  • Share inspiring stories from staff and patients

An innovative analysis of this exemplary institution, Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic presents a proven prescription for creating sustainable service excellence in any organization.


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Prescriptions for Service Success

“Quite possibly the most important management book to appear in more than a decade…essential reading for the leaders of any type of organization.”-Gerald Zaltman, PhD, author of How Customers Think

“This book reads like a thriller taking you into the heart of a great organization and peeling off, layer by layer, the secrets of creating incomparable performance for your customers and your partners. It should be read by everyone in business.”-Philip Kotler, Ph.D., S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

“A landmark. Through deep study, respectful listening, and eloquent reporting, the authors connect 'service success' to the very core of healthcare's mission and to the very soul of the healthcare workforce.”-Donald M. Berwick, M.D., MPP, president and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

“This book is an essential read for those managing labor-intensive, highly interactive service businesses, and offers thought provoking guidance to anyone seeking to build a customer-focused culture.”-George Day, Ph.D., Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor and codirector, Mack Center for Technological Innovation, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

“Berry and Seltman have now defined a new gold standard for service with their extraordinary assessments of the prestigious Mayo Clinic's service culture and management.”-James D. Rogers, chairman/CEO, Kampgrounds of America Inc.

“An extraordinary book that provides wonderful lessons in how to build and sustain service excellence in any business organization. It also offers superb insights on how unshakable core values can drive a successful culture.”-Stephen W. Brown, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Services Leadership, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University

About the Author

Leonard Berry, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Marketing, and holds the M.B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He is also Professor of Humanities in Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. Berry is the author of several service quality bestsellers and the recipient of the 2007 American Marketing Association/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award and the 2008 Paul D. Converse Award.

Kent Seltman, PhD, served as director of marketing at Mayo Clinic from 1992 through 2006. With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare marketing, Dr. Seltman writes and lectures frequently on marketing and branding. He also served as editor of Marketing Health Services, published by the American Marketing Association.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (May 19, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071590730
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071590730
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Built to last, December 8, 2009
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This review is from: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations (Hardcover)
Mayo Clinic is part of the American vernacular, and synonymous with excellence in health care. Did you ever wonder how the organization achieved such remarkable level of awareness inarguable brand associations? In Berry and Seltman's book, you'll learn that it had little to do with promotion, and everything to do with values. Preservation of the values of the Drs. Mayo is baked into the "product" of Mayo Clinic, which, of course, is a service.

If you are in the service industry, then you know that product features are defined by the service experience, and the benefits are determined by customer satisfaction. Both are intangibles.

Mayo Clinic has applied manufacturing process improvement (Six Sigma, LEAN, et al) to healthcare systems to improve the patient experience. For in the end, Mayo's management understands that the patient outcomes define product quality, and patient satisfaction is the promotion.

With all the hoopla today surrounding social media and marketing, an interesting sidebar to this book is the realization that Mayo's brand was built entirely through social networks; patients travel around the world for treatment at the clinic, and return home to tell the tale to friends and family. Quite obviously, the majority of the stories told have been positive. This book helps us to understand why.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone in healthcare, August 5, 2008
This review is from: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations (Hardcover)
An excellent book with practical principles that work and can be applied in any healthcare/service setting, large or small. I like to underline noteworthy thoughts as I read. My problem was that so much of the book was underlined when I finished. I then ordered 30 copies from Amazon to give to team members, plus have recommended this book to a number of others outside our health system.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for service managers, July 8, 2008
This review is from: Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations (Hardcover)
Dr. Berry et al have beautifully gleaned valuable lessons from an outstanding organization that can be applied in multiple settings. The Mayo Clinic has attained a level of service that few organizations can achieve, and the secrets of there success are plainly revealed in their book. As a healthcare provider, I noticed how the authors clearly explained topics very familiar to those in healthcare so that members of all organizations can benefit. I would encourage any manager of a service organization to read this book.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
leadership lessons, ideal physician behaviors, orchestrating the clues, destination medicine, humanic clues, external brand communications, mechanic clues, integrated medical record, healthcare brand, team medicine, allied health staff, functional clues, physician chair, protecting the brand, realizing human potential, clue categories, clue management, presented brand, physician leaders, cooperative science, brand meaning, operations administrator, social profit
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mayo Clinic, New York, United States, Saint Marys Hospital, Mayo Health System, The Free Press, Shirley Weis, Robert Smoldt, Discovering the Soul of Service, Helen Clapesattle, Hugh Smith, Denis Cortese, Robert Waller, Mayo Foundation, Henry Plummer, Harry Harwick, William Mayo, John Herrell, The Doctors Mayo, George Bartley, Jane Campion, Social Research, Carleton Rider, Michael Estes, Organizational Dynamics
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