The Surgeon Who Wouldn't Operate ...
The Surgeon Who Wouldn't Operate on Himself

The Real Place by M. Flournoy IV, MS, LSSBB

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For fourteen years, I was the person organizations called when something was broken. Labs. Hospitals. HR departments. Universities. I could walk in, find the fracture, and fix it in weeks.

What I could not do, for a long time, was turn that same eye on myself.

This is the real story behind Obsidian Success. Not a highlight reel, the actual throughline from a research lab in pharmaceutical drug development to a five hundred thousand dollar redesign in academic medicine, to rebuilding operations at a medical school, to leading Lean transformation in healthcare today. Every stop had real numbers attached to it. None of them answered the question I was avoiding.

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