Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle

Acknowledgments

Micheal’s Thanks

How do you appropriately thank all of the people who help take a project like this from a conversation to an idea to a discussion to a Model and ultimately to a book? To make this book project go it first took people believing in me to give me the chance to lead and use the Model of growth we speak and write about. Wib Evans at FirstBank was the first person to say “I believe in you” and “We don’t want you to just speak about this Model—we want you to implement it with our people.” From there many enlightened people who saw the value of having a coach in their life have allowed me into their lives with a message that says we can be better tomorrow than we are today with the help of a coach. John Floyd, Pat Weiland, Ralph Huff, Shane Reeves, and Rick Sain, Norman Brown, John Jones, and many other business Leaders have brought me in to coach and develop their people, and for that I’ll always be grateful. Marc Fortune has been a tremendous enterprise mentor to me to help take my business to new levels of success and formalize my team. Thank you to Spike McDaniel, my director of operations, for getting me to the many engagements around the world so we can share and impact.

I would like to say thank you to a host of people directly tied to the book. First, Colby Jubenville, the co-author of this book, for believing in a former basketball coach who said we would impact the world, and second, for helping see this project through to its logical conclusion. ...