The Blue Line Imperative: What Managing for Value Really Means

Acknowledgments

The efforts and support of many people made this book possible. We would like to single out Kate Kirk from Cambridge Editorial Partnership and the stellar editorial work she did in the early stages of the project. Her judgment and skill were indispensable. We would also like to thank I.J. Schecter—friend, confidant, writer, and literary agent. His efforts in getting the manuscript ready for publication were consistently outstanding. Thanks are also due to the thousands of participants in our executive and MBA programs who allowed us to test the core ideas of this book on them. Their insights and active participation strengthened the focus and key arguments of the text in so many ways.

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