Trampled by Unicorns

Acknowledgments

It truly takes a village to create a book. A big MERCI to:

• James Silver: my writing partner, half Yoda, half Dr Watson. Without your long hours, infinite patience with my endless iterations, and ability to turn any idea and draft of mine into readable sentences, this book would simply not exist.
• Jonathan Krim: for your eagle eyes, ferocious red pen, and unaltered sense of humor at one in the morning. “Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge.”
• Gabriella Lourie and Paul Sliker: for your incomparable frog-boiling technique and rolodex that led me to actually write this book without (almost) noticing.
• Leah Spiro: for believing in this book from the first time I met you and being as much my therapist as my agent during the whole process.
• Bernard Lukey: for being the first leader to show me the power of empathy in business. Forever imitated, never equaled.
• Janelle Monney: for guiding me on my journey toward more empathy through the roller coaster of life. People are not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
• Tom Killalea, Ailish Campbell, Christopher M. Schroeder, Peter L. Allen, Jon Keidan, Alfred Lin, Eytan Seidman, Michael Zaoui, Caroline Winter, Bernard Spitz, SS, JM, BC, MM, and BG: for reading many terrible drafts, answering endless questions, listening to all my doubts, and providing your generous (and very unfiltered!) feedback on the many areas for improvement you found.
• David Kabiller: for a memorable Spanish Inquisition–style dinner that ...