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THIS BOOK WAS TRULY a team effort. I want to thank my incredible wife of 37 years, Gayle, who has stood by me every step of the way. Gayle is the most courageous individual I have ever known. She is a two-time breast cancer survivor who never gave up on life, who persevered and continues to persevere to help others through her work as a registered nurse. Gayle is a remarkable role model for our entire family. Gayle, I love you.

Our four children and their loved ones – Jared, Nick and Brinley, Kristina and Darrin, and Matt and Cassee, and one grandson, Luke Dominic – your love is my strength. I love you. I want to thank my father-in-law, Bill O'Halloran, for his many years of support and love and for giving me the gift of his daughter Gayle. I want to thank my late parents, Dominic and Jane Mattone, and my late mother-in-law, Jean O'Halloran, all of whom I know watch over on our family. We go forward every day with character, conviction, and confidence beneath your wings.

I want to thank all my clients who have attended my speeches and programs and those whom I have had the privilege to coach and consult with throughout the years. I have learned so much from you, and I want to thank you for your contributions to this book. I especially want to thank my co-author Nick Vaidya for his incredible contributions to this book, Joel Pitney, who is one of my closest advisors and who worked tirelessly on our book launch and, of course, I want to thank the 14 CEOs who appear in the book for providing such powerful, rich, and deep perspectives on leadership and culture and truly helping make the book come alive. I want to thank Dr. Kerry Healey, president of Babson College, for writing such a powerful foreword to our book.

I want to thank my close friends and marketing partners – Stefan Speligene, Terri Totty, and the entire roux team as well as Jim and Carla Higgins from the Higgins Marketing Group. I want to thank my close friends and global business partners Bonnie Hagemann, Annette White-Klososky, Dawn Ciarlone, and the team from Executive Development Associates; Dan Hoeyer and team from Leaders Excellence; Vegar Wiik, Sybil Alfred, Natalya Sabga, Debra Delach-Dodd, and the entire team from Florida Atlantic University's Executive Education department; Elaine Eisenman and Joe Weintraub from Babson College's Executive Education team; Romeo Ruh and team from ZfU International Business School in Zurich, Switzerland; Graciela Gonzalez Biondo, Chris Stanley, and team from World of Business Ideas (WOBI); Alper Utko, Didem Gurcuoglu, Labeed Hamid, and team from the Management Centre Turkey in Istanbul; Soliman Arab, Sherihan Hassabo, and team from Vigor Enterprise in Kuwait; Christianna Tsiterou and Marie-Louise Adlercreutz from Innoverto, in Dubai, UAE; Hugo Fernando Gutierrez, Alena Cabova, Lenka Krivkova, and team from Seminarium Mexico; Jorge Venegas and Maria Pia Venegas from Seminarium Costa Rica and Panama; Sven Kroneberg from Seminarium International; Juan Carlos Linares and Paulette Manrique from Lee Hecht Harrison in Bogota, Colombia; Faith Chinogurei and Samantha Mawarire from Manifest HRC in Zimbabwe; Bhaawana Devaraath from Synerggie Events in Oman; Muneer from CustomerLab in India; and CB Bowman and the entire Association of Corporate Executive Coaches family. I want to extend special thanks to Joan Bigham, Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer, and the team from the Thinkers50 for their belief in me and my work. I want to thank Taha Farhan and the team from Globalgurus for their support and belief in me and my work. And, of course, I want to thank all our global speaker bureau partners for their support as well. Special thanks to all my executive MBA students at Florida Atlantic University. I want to extend a special thank-you to my good friend and personal coach, Linda Mattia Potts, who has given me many gifts along the way, but the ones I most cherish are her honesty, wisdom, and inspiration. I want to thank my colleagues and friends from AlignMark – Cabot Jaffee Sr., Cabot Jaffee, Glen Jaffee, and Mike Struth for what I learned from you and for providing me the wisdom and passion to do what I do today.

Lastly, this project would not have been possible without the outstanding efforts of Senior Editor Matt Davis and his team at Wiley. Thank you very much.

John Mattone