True North, Emerging Leader Edition, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

We are deeply indebted to many people who contributed to the Emerging Leader Edition of True North. First to Lauren Schwenk, who served as our chief of staff on this project. She brings great skill, speed, and thoroughness to research, writing, editing, and design. We couldn't have written this book without her.

We also appreciate the encouragement and support of the Wiley team, led by Jeanenne Ray, in this book and all books in the True North series. The pioneering work on leadership by the late Warren Bennis and David Gergen provided the intellectual basis for many of the ideas here. We are indebted to Peter Sims and Diana Mayer, who contributed so much to the original True North in 2007.

From Bill: The new ideas in the Emerging Leader Edition of True North have been greatly enhanced by our leadership group at Harvard Business School (HBS), especially the research, leadership theories, and brilliant teaching of Dean Nitin Nohria, Hubert Joly, Scott Snook, and Tom DeLong, along with other HBS colleagues for their insights and wisdom: Michael Porter, Krishna Palepu, Mihir Desai, Ranjay Gulati, Amy Edmondson, Das Narayandas, Len Schlesinger, Frances Frei, Srikant Datar, Rob Kaplan, Jay Lorsch, and the late Clay Christensen. Thanks also to Diane Weinhold and Stacy Walcheski of the George Family Office, who provided helpful support and project management. The insights, counsel, and encouragement of my wife, Penny, have made this book possible.

From Zach: Thanks ...