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EMBRACE AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE
Committing to change means immersing yourself in different cultures and embracing an outsider’s perspective.
Why in the world would a Jewish guy from Pittsburgh want to move to the United Arab Emirates to run a hospital? I’m sure some people wondered that in 2011, when I became CEO of Cleveland Clinic’s large multispecialty facility in Abu Dhabi. Four other CEOs had come and gone over the previous five years. As I like to joke, I got offered the job because there were no other leaders at the Clinic left to ask.
And yet, having recently overcome bladder cancer, I wanted a challenge, and this was a big one. When I first arrived in Abu Dhabi, the massive, three-million-square-foot facility was in the early stages ...
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