Succeeding at the Top

Acknowledgments

Without the experience of working with and coaching the many executives moving into new positions, this workbook could not be written. My gratitude to them is wide and deep. This workbook has benefited from the authors noted in the bibliography. They have served me well as the foreground and backdrop to my thinking. Any misinterpretations or misreadings of these references are obviously my responsibility.

The issue of “discrepancy” applies to any author and to me in this instance as well. What I think I am saying or aiming at may be at variance with what comes across to the reader. Fortunately, my colleagues who have read the various drafts have provided me the kind of feedback needed to ensure as much as possible that what I ...