View From the Top: An Inside Look at How People in Power See and Shape the World

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of hundreds of interview hours, hundreds of thousands of miles spent traveling, countless conversations, and an extraordinary amount of work. Numerous individuals have contributed their wisdom and insight for which we are grateful. First and foremost, View From the Top would not have been possible without the many men and women interviewed for this book. I am very thankful for the honesty, referrals, and time of all the study participants. In particular, Craig Calhoun, Makoto Fujimura, George Gallup Jr., Frances Hesselbein, Clay Johnson III, Stanley Katz, Linda Lader, Doris Meissner, Steve Murdock, Jack Nicklaus, Steve Reinemund, George Rupp, John Siniff, Mike Ullman, Michael Useem, John Whitehead, and Michael Yang offered their names and their expertise as members of the study's national advisory council. Additionally, I am grateful to Jack LeCuyer, Bob Edmonds, Janet Eissenstat, and Diane Yu for their help through the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and the White House Fellows Foundation and Association in securing the required access to survey current and former Fellows.

This book would not have been possible without the excellent work of my research assistants: Paul Abraham, Vivian Ban, Matthew Bonem, Myles Bugbee, Matthew Carey, Danny Cohen, Amanda Dworak, Alexandra Espinoza, Lu Frazier, Molly Goldstein, Patrick Kelly, Mary Mikell Lampton, Noemie Levy, Omar Metwalli, Thomas Mitchell, Michelle Nguyen, Payton Odom, ...