How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Skip Borst, my business partner from the start, provides encouragement and essential contributions every day. He left a good job at GE and joined this quest in 1995 when we had no business income. Ed Hoffman of NASA provides the unwavering support and encouragement that makes all this possible. Ed has been our “patron” as surely as the Medici family was for the Renaissance. JoMarie Dancik funded the workshop that birthed our company, now called “4-D Systems.” Doris Michaels, of DSM Agency, has been a perfect agent, with more than enough expertise and enthusiasm to overcome my limitations as a writer. Richard Narramore, my editor from Wiley, has been an ideal advisor shaping this book into an important contribution. I cannot say Doris and Richard are the only people who could bring How NASA Builds Teams to the market. However, I can say nobody else could have made this process so enjoyable.