Dr. Donald Berwick is known in academic and health policy circles as a heroic figure.
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President George W. Bush viewed Ariel Sharon, even when the prime minister frustrated him, as a warrior and heroic figure.
He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility and generosity.
McCain seemed diminished, cutting less of a heroic figure than he started.
And the one heroic figure that stands up for all Russians today in the opinion polls is Marshal Zhukov, the victor of the Battle of Kursk in 1943.
Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.
Mr Carr sees his subject as a heroic, Promethean figure, but Davis can also seem arrogant and abusive, particularly where women were concerned.
To many Australians, Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish Catholics, was a heroic anti-establishment figure who fought corrupt British colonists in the 19th Century.
This figure involves some heroic extrapolation, but even half that sum would seem a lot to pay for a system that is not even good at compensating patients who are injured.
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Professor Tim Morris, who heads the program and has studied the way leaders help or hinder innovation within their organization, says he is doubtful about the notion of the "heroic" leader, a charismatic, totemic figure who pulls subordinates along in his or her all-powerful wake.
The movie is a twist on the classic story, with the Sheriff of Nottingham cast as a sympathetic figure up against a not-so-heroic Robin Hood.
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