Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom

Acknowledgments

There are countless people I would like to thank for their help throughout my life, without whom I surely would not be doing the work I do. For the sake of brevity here, I would like to acknowledge and thank those who have had the greatest impact on the success of this book.

First, I'd like to thank you, the reader. Without people like you, who seek to become better leaders and better human beings, this book would not exist. Thank you for helping to make our world a better place by making the statement, through the act of reading this book and applying the ideas within it, that true greatness in leadership and in life is achieved by focusing on serving others.

Thank you to my parents. Without their unconditional support, this book never would have come to be.

Thank you to my wonderful fiancée and best friend, Leah. She inspires me every day with her incredible thoughtfulness, her care for the people around her, and her devotion to being as Christlike as possible.

Thank you to Jon Gordon, who is one of the most selfless people I have ever met. Despite an incredibly busy schedule, he took the time to introduce me to the publishing team at John Wiley & Sons, and he did not hesitate when I asked him to write the Foreword for this book.

Thank you to Simon Sinek for believing in me, and for taking time out of his incredibly busy schedule to mentor me and to introduce me to so many great people, including Charlie Kim, whose company was a significant source of inspiration ...