Talent Force: a New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to acknowledge the following people who had an influence on this book, whether they knew it or not: Adrian Cheney at Pratt & Whitney, who would read me passages from Atlas Shrugged in our weekly one-on-one meetings to show me that work was more than one-dimensional; to Dave Zemelman, who took me under his wing at Frito-Lay to show me how to do his job someday; to Larry Probst, who had the courage to bring me from a big consumer packaged goods company to EA (a small interactive entertainment company at the time) to do a job that no one had done before for him; to my mother, Billie DeWees, who believed in my talent and instilled my work ethic in me; and to my wife Patti Rueff, who never once said, “Are you really spending ...