Clive Meanwell, founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Medicines Co. , has focused on the challenges of time, cost, and quality-driven biopharmaceutical product development for more than a decade. Meanwell's career has given him key insights into the drivers of risk and of value in the complex process of worldwide drug development -- and taught him the importance of speed to outpace the competition.

"To make real change in an organization, you have to align your intellectual power with the civil authority. The civil authority in a company is its power source. It's nice to say that knowledge is power, but of course that's a bunch of hooey! Power is power. And as a change agent, the power you've got is the power of new ideas -- which is much more abstract and a lot less actionable than the power of the civil authority." --Clive Meanwell

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