Work the Problem: How Experts Tackle Workplace Challenges

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To the many creative, smart, caring, talented, deserving, ambitious, thwarted, frustrated, exhausted, reflective, funny, generous, and, most of all, hard-working people who shared their work-life stories with me—thank you for your time, patience, interest in the project, and anonymity. My hope is that you don’t recognize yourselves at all in the following pages, but at the same time you feel vindicated and supported by the commentaries.

Thank you to Sue Kaiden, former ATD Career Development Community of Practice manager, who partnered in guiding this book forward and developing its commentaries. Every subject matter expert appearing here was her inspired choice, and from the start, her interest and energy gave the book project ...