Acknowledgments

IN PREPARING THIS BOOK we have been fortunate to have had many sources of inspiration and support. We recognize the continuing inspiration of many individuals that have over the years contributed to our thinking about empowering leadership that brings out the self-leadership in others, including Harold Angle, Chris Argyris, Barry Bateman, Michael Beyerlein, Alan Cheney, Richard Cherry, Tom Cummings, Samer Faraj, Dennis Gioia, Richard Hackman, Peter Hom, Robert House, Ed Lawler, Ted Levitt, Ed Locke, Peter Lorenzi, Kathi Lovelace, Fred Luthans, Bary Macy, Mike Mahoney, Jim Mancuso, Karen Manz, Bob Marx, Chris Neck, John Newstrom, Craig Pearce, Tom Peters, Phil Podsakoff, Frank Shipper, Laurie Sims, Greg Stewart, Skip Szalagyi, Linda Trevino, and Seokhwa Yun. All of these people have significantly affected our thinking and writing over the years. We appreciate Richard Cherry’s men-torship and help during the early stages of our research about teams. We continue to appreciate Tom Peters’ contribution of a foreword for our original SuperLeadership book. We especially express our appreciation to our colleagues that helped us with the preparation of the various leadership profiles throughout the book, including Vikas Anand, Elliott Carlisle, Don Harrison, Narda Quigley, Ken A. Smith, Abhishek Srivastava, and Seokhwa Yun. Indeed, without their efforts much of this book would not exist. Many of these coauthors were the “experts” and/or key links that were critical to the process of developing the inside information for each of the stories.

We are also very grateful to the many others that helped make the writing and printing of this book a reality. We thank all the helpful people at Berrett-Koehler Publishers. We especially thank Steven Piersanti, our editor, who effectively challenged us to make this a better book.

In addition we thank our respective universities, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (especially the Isenberg School of Management) and The University of Maryland-College Park (especially the Robert. H. Smith College of Business), for their support of our research and writing over the years. Our thanks extend to our deans and chairs: Tom O’Brien, Linda Smircich, Rudy Lamone, Bert Leete, Howard Frank, Ed Locke, Susan Taylor, and Ken G. Smith. We especially appreciate the support for manuscript preparation provided by the Administrative Support Center at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. Ms. Becky Jerome provided superb support in preparing the manuscript.

Charles Manz would like to offer a special thanks to Charles and Janet Nirenberg whose generous gift made his current position as the Nirenberg professor of Business Leadership possible. He would also like to acknowledge the support of the Harvard Business School, which awarded him a Marvin Bower Fellowship for 1988–1989, the time period in which the final touches were completed for the original SuperLeadership volume.

We also owe a special thanks to the companies and managers and employees whose inspiration our many examples and profiles draw upon in order to paint vivid realistic pictures of SuperLeadership in action.

Finally, we thank our families and especially our wives, Karen and Laurie. The energy we have been able to spend writing this and our other books and articles has been greatly facilitated by their support and understanding. Hank Sims thanks his father, the original and real Henry P. Sims, for his lifelong inspiration to his loving family.