As always, I must thank first and foremost the thousands upon thousands of incredible people who have shared with me and my company over the years the lessons of your own experiences in the workplace since we first began our research in 1993. I also want to thank the very many business leaders who have expressed so much confidence in our work by hiring us and giving me such a rare opportunity to learn from the real management challenges dealt with by real managers every day in the real world. To the hundreds of thousands who have attended my keynote addresses and seminars over the years: thanks for listening, for laughing, for sharing the wisdom of your experience, for pushing me with the really tough questions, for all of ...

Get It's Okay to Be the Boss now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.