March 2012
Beginner
224 pages
4h 4m
English
book
Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future
by Leonard Schlesinger, Charles Kiefer, Paul Brown
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Acknowledgments
This book is essentially a report of what we have learned from the hundreds of people who have attended the Action Trumps Everything workshop. We owe a special thanks to these alumni and friends: Dick Balzer, Paul Bauer, Les Charm, Mike Chmura, Mary Jo Cook, Eliot Daley, Wayne Delker, Pete Dolan, Diane Fulman, Carol Hacker, Kerry Hamilton, Miriam Hawley, Sherry Immediato, Cheryl Kiser, Martin Krag, Kurt Malkoff, Doug Milliken, Amy Rosen, Julia Ross, Johann Sadock, Richard Voos, Joel Yanowitz, Carl Youngman, and Ken Zolot.
And we would especially like to acknowledge for their untold hours of work helping to develop and express the ideas in their present form: Shahid Ansari, Scott Aronow, Chuck Conn, Heidi Sparkes Guber, Heidi Neck, ...
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