Throughout the process of conducting the interviews for this book, we found again and again that success is a very personal notion, something nearly everyone defines differently. We interviewed forty-five people and found more than fifty unique descriptions. No one definition is broad enough to accommodate all the creative, striving people whose stories you’ve just read.
The people we interviewed reminded us repeatedly that the most important part of success is the process of achievement itself. The rewards of life can be tenuous, fleeting, amorphous, and difficult to quantify. They may come at work, or on the road, or at home. They may come from your colleagues, or your family, and often from both. If there’s one thing we can ...
