Abstract
Executive Overview by Academy President Andrew H. Van de Ven William W. George, chairman and CEO of Medtronic. Inc., delivered the keynote address and received the Distinguished Executive of the Year Award at the Academy of Management's annual conference in Washington, D.C, in August. His leadership exemplifies the highest ideals and values of the Academy's Distinguished Executive Award. His address focused on ways of building an innovative learning culture and an empowered organization. Medtronic, Inc., is the world's leading medical technology company, and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Fortune magazine cover story named Medtronic the ‘Microsoft of the medical device industry,' and featured the company's innovative learning culture. Founded in 1949 as a producer of pacemakers for heart patients, Medtronic has expanded internally and through acquisitions into producing devices that do everything from controlling pain to reducing the tremors of Parkinson's disease. When Bill George joined Medtronic...
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