Creating the Innovation Culture: Leveraging Visionaries, Dissenters and Other Useful Troublemakers

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people helped me take this project from idea to book. My thanks first to Roland Dumas, whose life role as dissenter, visionary, and thinker-out-of-the-box first gave me the idea. Then, David Carlson and Cliff Cullen—both practical men with deep insights—helped me to work through the first stumbling around. Susan Robinson, Louise Ross, and Sharon VanderKaay took these ideas even further, proving—as I have always known—that they are that most rare of all commodities—successful innovators.

Once an idea had formed into main themes, many others' reflections and expertise helped me to shape the content further. They are Dr. Min Basadur, Rod Brandvold, Rod Brazier, Alan Breakspear, Derek Burney, David Brown, Jonathan Caloff, Michel Cardinal, Maureen Donlevy, Mont Doyle, Roland Dumas, Joe Flynn, Sol Kasimer, Mike Norman, Rob Notman, Geoffrey O'Brien, Christiane Ouimet, Steve Quesnelle, Geoff Smith, Gisele Samson-Verreault, Chuck Seeley, and Marc Spooner.

Finally, four people, Lew Auerbach, Roxanne Cameron, Barb Mac-Callum, and Janet Mairs undertook the onerous and somewhat thankless task of reviewing and commenting on the entire book, applying their experience to what I had written and helping to focus the material still further. They have a unique capacity to ponder an individual idea or even phrase while holding the wholeness of the intent of the book and of the idea. Their comments have been invaluable in both the large and the small.

Throughout, my editor, Karen Milner, ...