High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

Preface

We never expected to write a book together. In fact, business leadership didn't seem to be something we were fated for. Don is a scientist and an engineer, not a management guru. He graduated from MIT and Johns Hopkins University with research ranging from simulating timing systems for the navy's nuclear missile systems at Draper Laboratories, to studying atmospheric effects on satellite frequencies at the Applied Physics Laboratory, to automating the Harvard/MIT biomedical laboratory (his thesis research published in the Journal of Medical Instrumentation) and helping pioneer fourth-generation medical imaging technology. While at Hopkins, he became fascinated with how humans organize and perform in groups, and even more fascinated by ...