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Foreword

I have been involved in education for a good part of my life, most of which came through the Institute for Management Studies (IMS), founded in 1974 by my father, mentor, and friend, Gordon A. Peters. IMS, his brainchild, was designed to deliver knowledge from cutting-edge business thinkers to managers at large organizations, who might otherwise not have a chance to receive it. In its first year, IMS presented such well-known faculty as Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard. We also introduced a promising young Harvard professor, Dr. Michael Porter. Since that time, IMS has worked with the best and brightest from academia and consulting to provide management development to over 25,000 managers a year throughout the Western world.

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