ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Writing this book has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. In fact, I never intended to write a book, but after I retired from IBM in 2020, people urged me to share what I’d experienced. Personally, I was most passionate about an issue bigger than myself: the urgent need to prepare society to thrive in our digital era by creating more jobs for more people, and how the SkillsFirst movement can create economic opportunity for so many and heal divides. I thought a book helping to drive this type of societal change, filled with facts, studies, stories, descriptions of barriers, and implementation details, would find an audience.
Robert Barnett, the acclaimed lawyer and renowned book publishing expert, guided me down a ...
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