Make Your Own Waves

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MAKE YOUR OWN WAVES WOULD LITERALLY NOT HAVE BEEN written were it not for the vision of the senior editor at AMACOM Books, Stephen S. Power. About a year ago, via my trusted literary agent John Willig, I submitted an ambitious proposal for a book on innovation that would have chronicled my 20 years of research on skills and tools of successful innovators and entrepreneurs. In the book proposal a small section was to be devoted to “The Surfer’s Rules” as an illustration of one of my findings: innovators often take analogies and metaphors literally. Stephen contacted John and said, in effect, “that’s a pretty interesting book idea, ...