Power Up: Transforming Organizations Through Shared Leadership

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We have had more than the usual amount of editorial advice and encouragement, due to the vagaries of the publishing business. Our original editor John Mahaney provided support for the concept of the book, and Jim Childs, Janet Coleman, and Renana Meyers all contributed useful suggestions. Richard Luecke excised the water from our meandering stream of words and forced us to be clear about what we meant.

Many friends and professional colleagues read the manuscript and provided sage advice. For their help on the whole manuscript we thank Harry Bloemink, Dennis Gallagher, Eric Larsen, Robert LeDuc, Kent Nethery, and Richard Strayer. Reactions to chapters came from Alan Briskin, Andrea Corney, John DeShano, David Diggs, the members of the Catalyst Consulting group in Santa Cruz, Esther Hamilton, Susan Harris, Lynne Rosansky, Phyllis Schlesinger, Peggy Umanzio, and participants at the Museum Management Institute. Several people at Wilson Learning Corporation—Linda Antone, Abby Cantlon, Kalen Hammann, Velma Lashbrook, Michael Leimbach, Alex Muller, Dave Patrick, Tom Roth—provided helpful observations about the book based on their experience with training program clients. David is particularly grateful to Stanford MBA students and especially the executives in the Sloan and Leading and Managing Change Programs who raised many challenging questions and provided useful examples of how these ideas applied. Similarly, participants in numerous Babson executive education programs ...