Leading Quietly

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to many friends and colleagues for their contributions to this book, particularly Bill Demas, Carl Kester, George Lodge, Lynn Paine, Thomas Piper, Jerry Useem, and the members of the Law and Ethics Workshop at Harvard Business School. My editor, Melinda Adams Merino, provided practical and insightful guidance at every step in the process.

I am particularly indebted to my friend Kenneth Winston for his careful reading of an early draft and for his many wise and perceptive suggestions. I am also extremely grateful to my wife, Patricia O’Brien, who contributed so much to this book—major ideas, incisive criticism, and valuable suggestions—that she served as an invisible coauthor.

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