Humble Inquiry

Acknowledgments

This book has been in the making for several years. Humble Inquiry as a concept was part of my helping book, but it was Jeevan Sivasubramaniam who saw immediately that this should be a book of its own. I resisted for a while but now thank him heartily for his persistent efforts to get me to do the project. I tried many versions on my colleagues at MIT and my consulting friends and am very grateful to all of them for giving me both encouragement and feedback. Among them, the most helpful were Daniel Asnes, Karen Ayas, Lotte Bailyn, David Coughlan, Tina Doerffer, Jody Gittell, Tom Huber, Mary Jane Kornacki, Bob McKersie, Philip Mix, Joichi Ogawa, Jack Silversin, Emily Sper, John Van Maanen, Ilene Wasserman, and the Berrett-Kohler ...