Management Lessons from the E.R.: Prescriptions for Success in Your Business
Paul S. Auerbach, . . Free Press, $24 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-1635-7
The premise is sound: life in the emergency room can be similar to life in the business world. Critical decisions often must be made quickly, and the penalty for reaching the wrong conclusion can be devastating. Auerbach, a professor of surgery in the emergency medicine division at Stanford University who also has extensive business experience as both chief operating officer of a medical management company and as a venture capitalist, would seem the perfect candidate for this book. But he fails to provide a useful framework for applying what he has learned in the emergency room to business situations. The author of
Reviewed on: 03/04/2002
Genre: Nonfiction