Crossing the Divide

Acknowledgments

My gratitude and acknowledgments begin with the “Crossing the Divide” conference on which this book is based and then move forward and backward in time, extending from those who helped put this book into shape to those who set me on my course.

I am very thankful to the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, particularly its director, David Gergen, its co-director, Andy Zelleke, and its executive director, Donna Kalikow, for enabling me to assemble the conference and then to assemble this book for those who did not have the opportunity to be there. The center’s vision for extending the frontiers of leadership studies provided a platform to take the emerging idea of intergroup leadership—leadership that deliberately ...