The High Performance Organization

Acknowledgements

I should like to thank a number of people for their support during the writing of this book. Maggie Smith and Ailsa Marks of Butterworth-Heinemann, together with Francesca Ford and Claire Hutchins, have shown generosity and forbearance in waiting for this text. My colleagues at Roffey Park have been an endless source of ideas and practical support. Val Hammond and her successor as Chief Executive of Roffey Park, John Gilkes, have encouraged the project.

I should also like to thank all those people who have participated in the Roffey Park research projects over the years whose findings I refer to in this book. I am very grateful to all the writers who have kindly allowed me to draw on their ideas. In particular, I would like ...