TY  - JOUR
T1  - Creative Leadership: Making Good News
AU  - Dirschl, Douglas R.
Y1  - 2012/05/02
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.K.01028
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - e58 1
EP  - 4
VL  - 94
IS  - 9
N2  - 
President Friedlaender, fellow members of the American Orthopaedic Association, colleagues, and distinguished guests: It is a tremendous honor and privilege for me to address you as the incoming president of the American Orthopaedic Association. The list of the 123 giants of our profession who have served in this role before me is truly awe-inspiring. I respect each of these individuals immensely for their contributions to our profession and I especially cherish and am eternally grateful to the handful from whom I have had the great fortune of receiving mentorship. I feel honored to have the opportunity to add my thoughts and comments to theirs, yet decidedly inadequate to live up to their legacies. Thus, it is with equal measures of excitement and trepidation that I speak this morning. As a means of introducing you to what I have termed creative leadership, as well as a base from which to construct the practical meaning of that term, I will share two brief stories:

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.K.01028
ER  -