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Dr. Steven D. Hsi (pronounced 'she'), a family physician and father of two young sons, was diagnosed in 1995 with a rare coronary disease that caused his death five years later at the age of forty-four. Throughout his ordeals as a patient, including three open-heart surgeries, Dr. Hsi’s outlook on the teaching and practice of medicine changed. In 1997 he began a journal intended for publication after his death. Written with the assistance of newspaper columnist Jim Belshaw and completed posthumously by Hsi’s widow, Beth Corbin-Hsi. Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine is Dr. Hsi’s writings that urge his colleagues to become healers, to look at their patients as human beings with spiritual as well as physical lives.
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Leadership Jazz written by Max De Pree has firmly placed itself among the great business classics. Former President Bill Clinton called it "astonishing," and the late Peter Drucker advised "Read this slowly. This book is wisdom in action." Now updated for the first time in well over a decade, this powerful book reveals why today, more than ever, leadership is more an art than a science...Filled with insightful stories from DePree's experience as the chairman of Herman Miller and from people he's met along the way, Leadership Jazz reveals how to:

• Hold people accountable and give them space to reach their potential
• See the needs of employees and those of the company as the same
• Inspire change and innovation
• Work effectively with creative people

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