It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

The premise of this book is that large-scale change rests on the ability to change individuals. In our experience, few people have done that better than our professor, mentor, and friend, J. Bonner Ritchie. When we were students at Brigham Young University more than 20 years ago, we had the privilege of learning from one of the great master teachers, who, through his questions and examples, inspired change in ourselves and other individual students over the years beyond what we had seen before or have seen since.

Bonner was a champion of change, whether as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, an officer in the U.S. Army, a faculty member and civil rights activist at The University of Michigan, a business consultant ...