Acknowledgments

We thrive only in relation to one another. We rise up and discover the best of ourselves only in response to other human beings. Everything in this book is a gift bestowed by those around me. It is only because they are.

Myshel Romans found me, and the title, and the infinite loop of energy that is Love+Work, and the passion to not let go until it was real and done.

My children, and Myshel’s boys, show us every day how precise and powerful each person’s loves truly are, and what’s at stake if we can create a world in which each person’s loves are honored.

My team at the ADP Research Institute is extraordinary specifically because each person contributes what they love. Kristi Pavel runs all our projects with a strange-to-behold combination of grace, efficiency, relentlessness, and responsibility.

Dr. Mary Hayes is, well, there’s only one Mary Hayes. Her intellectual prowess is matched only by her eventful life and her dedication to do it right.

Meredith Bohling is some uncategorizable combination of wit, insight, pragmatism, and get-it-done-ness.

Dr. Nela Richardson runs the other half of the Institute, and her perspectives on the broader economic world and our place within it have shaped my own and always will. I am so proud to be her partner.

Dr. Frances Chumney has brought her passion for precision and the rigor of deep science to all that we do.

The way Jennifer Beverage gets inside other people’s minds should be illegal. Fortunately, she uses her gift only for good: for crystallizing an idea, turning it into a sequence of actions, and so building an experience that can actually change people’s lives.

Kate Fay is our musician in the corporate world, always looking for meaning and melody.

Jo, Mum, thank you for seeing the good in us all and for showing me what lifelong love really looks like.

Pippa, no words really. Thank you for the inspiration. And the love. And the talking. And the being there.

Neil, your march through life is love filled and beautiful and destined, even on those days when it feels like none of those things.

And to the team at Harvard Business Review Press: my editor, Jeff Kehoe, I really don’t know how you do it, but you have a way of seeing a project so clearly, and holding tightly to what you see, while still allowing it to live in a very messy space for a very long time. Julie Devoll, you are the call we all always want to take, because the ideas will be on point and the possibilities front-loaded. Jen Waring, Stephani Finks, Felicia Sinusas, Erika Heilman, and, of course, Adi Ignatius, thank you for taking this project’s smallest details and its grandest ambitions so seriously.