FOREWORD

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

Henry Ford

I first got to know Tom Kayser at Xerox. I had just completed the Executive Development MBA Program at the University of Rochester’s Simon School. As a developing executive within the Xerox Human Resources organization and with my new degree in hand, my senior management sponsors thought that it would be a good idea (and developmental for me) if I headed up the Organizational Development function for the Business Products and Systems Group. I wasn’t convinced that it was a good idea career-wise, but I agreed to give it a go.

Tom was the senior member of my new team of internal consultants. One of the first things he did was take me ...

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