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NOTES

Preface

1. T.H. White: White, T.H. “Book 2.” The Once and Future King. New York: Putnam, 1958.

2. Barbara Mistick and Karie Willyerd met: Because we wrote this book together, when we describe incidents from our own lives, we refer to ourselves by our first names, Barbara and Karie.

3. We also know from Gallup:, “State of the Global Workplace,” Gallup, 2013.

Chapter 1

1. Langston Hughes: Langston Hughes. Dreams from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

2. Jade stepped out on her apartment’s patio: Jade is a composite character of a few people we know. David is a person we know, fictionalized a bit to keep him anonymous. Throughout, when we use first names other than our own, we are telling the real stories of people with whom we have talked. Sometimes a character may be a mash-up of more than one person. We have taken some artistic license in the use of names or identifying situations. In some cases, people offered to use their full names, which are so indicated.

3. growth hacker: Ryan Holiday, “Everything Is Marketing: How Growth Hackers Redefine the Game,” Fast Company (December 17, 2012).

4. Gallup reports that most of us are disengaged ...