Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, as in the first page of this book, and in every other page, and in a straight line stretching all the way back to the Stanford versus UCLA football game in 1956 (Stanford 13, UCLA 14, unfortunately) where I first met him, is Benji (as those of us who love him, call him) Rosen. What I said on the first page is well worth repeating: The conversation I had with Benji thirty-one years, almost to the day, after that football game changed my life. For that, I am eternally grateful.

I wouldn't have met Benji, however, nor would I have met all the other wonderful people in this book; in fact, I might have been a dentist in Great Neck, New York, if I hadn't walked into the freshman speech class at New York University ...