Conversations Worth Having

Acknowledgments

No book is the result of its authors alone, and ours is no different. Writing Conversations Worth Having emerged from conversation after conversation with one another and with our families, colleagues, friends, editor, and clients, many of whose stories we tell in these pages. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge our fifteen years of friendship with each other and the complementary nature of our styles and temperaments, which brought balance and clarity to our collective writing. Our understanding of just how simple it is to engage in great conversations unveiled itself as we wrote. The foundation for our work, of course, is grounded in the brilliance and generosity of David Cooperrider and his colleagues at Case Western ...