Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work

Acknowledgments

The practice of innovation, like that of medicine, is a team sport. Through the course of writing this book, I learned that authorship is also a collective pursuit.

The roster of mentors, colleagues, friends, and inspirations is long, and I fear that I may inadvertently fail to include all in these acknowledgments. I could have simply recognized my Cleveland Clinic colleagues as a group because we’re an organization that lives by our motto “To act as a unit”—and I have benefited from this as a member of that community and as a patient—nevertheless, I want to recognize some of the valued contributors who made this book possible.

Cleveland Clinic CEO and president Toby Cosgrove deserves the pole position in this section for a multitude ...