Positive Conflict

Acknowledgments

I wish to acknowledge the Career Press team.A book is initially an idea and a dream. It is not fully a book until someone actually publishes it. Then, others can join the idea and share the dream. There is nothing quite like the heft of a new book with its attractive jacket and its carefully printed pages to truly fulfill the author’s own dream. Special thanks to Michael Pye, Kristen Parkes, Mike Fitzgibbon, Diana Ghazzawi, Kirsten Dalley, Kara Reynolds, and Laurie Kelly-Pye. It was Kate Henches who became my chief point of contact and principal editor; who pulled it all together. At various turns in the road, she made the book a better book. I am so grateful to you all.

I acknowledge the many schoolteachers who helped me discover ...