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Acknowledgments
The process of writing this book started over a decade ago as I concluded
that my profession’s succession systems wouldn’t survive another repeti-
tion. And I was the person at my office responsible for that looming failure.
Those were painful times as I struggled to cheerlead the troops, plead for
consensus, bark orders—anything I could think of to continue practitioner
succession as we’d known it. I had to find a better way to lead my col-
leagues to the high ground they deserved.
So I began writing—terribly at first—about what it would take to revive
the Days of the Giants. Our authoring team’s effort gained traction after