Reframing Organizations, 7th Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We noted in our first edition, “Book writing often feels like a lonely process, even when an odd couple is doing the writing.” This odd couple keeps getting older (ancient, to be more precise) and, some would say, even grumpier. It seems like only yesterday that we were young, aspiring new authors full of vim and vigor. But that was 40 years ago. To our amazement, we're still at it, and, even more remarkable, have remained close friends.

 

The best thing about teaching and book‐writing is that you learn so much from your readers and students, and we have been blessed to have so many of both. They have come from a number of institutions: Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the University of ...