Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration

Foreword

by Willie A. Deese, President,Merck Manufacturing Division

I was extremely pleased when Fred and Judith asked me to write the foreword to Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration: 4 Keys That Change Everything. For more than three decades, we exchanged ideas and worked together to improve organizational environments from the computer industry to the pharmaceutical industry. What I learned through our collaboration has expanded my view and understanding of transformational cultural change in ways that I could not have imagined 30 years ago.

My mental model of a high-performing organization began 35 years ago while working for the Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts. It was a workplace where everyone had the opportunity to ...