Building Better Ideas

This book is dedicated to the memory of Margaret Fuller, an American journalist, author, and promoter of intelligent “Conversations” among men and women in the early nineteenth century. A friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Mann, and other luminaries of her time, she sought recognition for women as intellectual equals and encouraged her friends and those she mentored, male and female, to speak up and speak out on important questions of her era.

I also dedicate this book to my supportive team and associates at Barnes & Conti, especially Rebecca Hendricks, who worked closely with me to develop the concepts discussed in this book. Rebecca offers me the essential combination of support and challenge whenever we collaborate. ...