Each year a group of executives from a variety of industries attend a short summer session course entitled “From Technology to Innovation: Putting Ideas to Work.” Organized by Sanford Weiner, it is group taught by him, Harvey Sapolsky (Professor of Public Policy and Organization in MIT’s Department of Political Science), Lee McKnight (Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an Associate Professor in the iSchool (The School of Information Studies), Syracuse University), Michael Schrage (co-director of the MIT Media Lab’s E-Markets Initiative), John Shook (CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute), and me.
This year’s group of students was particularly diverse and interesting. It included people from Mexico, Portugal, Turkey, Brazil, Spain, Finland, Taiwan, Kenya, South Korea, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Germany, and the US. They represented a large variety of industries, as well.
As I was in Israel at the time, I gave my presentation via Skype, drawing off the lessons of Goal Play! All attendees also received a copy of the book. I offered to autograph the book at some future time if and when I see the students in person–and I made a particular offer to do so if the person from Brazil would invite me there during the 2014 World Cup!
Goal Play! 
Having had the opportunity to be a Managing Director of my former company in the UK and having performed a turnaround in that same company (losing around 200k gbp per week, when I went in late October 2002 and having achieved break even in September 2003), I was naturally very interested in your hospital case, which I would like to read/study in detail. In fact I believe it would very interesting to study and eventually publish something on the similarities of turnaround situations, what works best vs. what does not work so well, touch points and differences between industries (if any ! In my case it was a major logistics and mail company), try to benchmark the impact of each action, etc. I have also subsequently turned around the negative Ebit results of the same company, in the Spanish business unit and the in Benelux. There was also another gentleman (Danish I believe) in class who was successfully involved in 2 turnaround scenarios. I welcome your views on this matter.
Thank you and regards. JPossollo