ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It’s not possible to express the depth of my gratitude for the help I’ve received, but I will try.
To Clayton Christensen—the intellectual giant on whose shoulders I stand—I am so grateful for the decade I spent working with and learning from you.
Thank you to Sarah Green Carmichael, my sponsor and editor extraordinaire at Harvard Business Review Press. This book wouldn’t have happened without you. Thank you also to Tim Sullivan and the rest of the team. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to work with you.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to editor Heather Hunt for her help throughout the writing process, from proposal to finishing touches. You are a brilliant writer. I’m glad we reconnected after our days at the Orem Public Library.
Thank you to the dynamic duo Amy Jameson and Brandon Jameson: Amy for her keen editorial eye and Brandon for his unerring design sensibility. You’ve been wonderful partners for more than fifteen years.
Thank you to Amy Humble for helping this cobbler “make her own shoes” when it comes to building and scaling a business. To Macy Robison, there’s no descriptor because you do so many things: from building our website to developing courses to helping to manage the daily beast that is this growing business. And to Sally Harker. I am so grateful for your pinch-hitting during the early part of this book.
A huge shout-out to Marla Gottschalk, who took the reins in building the S-Curve Locator and Disruptive Strengths Indicator, and to Christine Goodwin, whose massive analytical and design prowess has hustled them into something wonderful. (I’m also grateful for your spot-on insights after reading an early draft of this book.)
Thank you to Amy Gray, who has taught me so much about speaking. And to David Klatt for his mentorship on podcasting. Many of the interviews we did together found their way into this book. And thank you to old and new friends Alex Osterwalder, Patrick Hodgdon, Franz Busse, Melissa Davis, and Jake Smith. Your review of early drafts of this book improved it tremendously.
I am deeply indebted to Marshall Goldsmith for his sponsorship and for the Marshall Goldsmith 100 program. Because of you, my life has been changed for good.
To my mother, because she wanted to write a book—she made me think I could.
To my husband, Roger, our children, David and Miranda, my many dear friends (you know who you are), and to God. From the deepest place in my heart, thank you.