Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and Collaboration

Acknowledgments

When I began writing these pages, I experienced firsthand how a more or less creative act, regardless of its quality, can completely “abduct you” and isolate you from your surroundings. Therefore, my first acknowledgment goes, without a doubt, to Maribel, my wife and companion in everything—including, of course, this work—and to my daughter, Raquel, who have most directly suffered the consequences of this project and the obsessions that came with it.

I am also grateful to my editor, Virtuts Angulo, and her team at Libros de Cabecera, for their faith in this book and their professional excellence. Virtuts knows how to inspire, energize, give confidence, and pose questions. She also knows when to accept the things that seem important ...