Acknowledgments

Special Acknowledgment for Our Collaborating Writer

Kathleen Jordan, Ph.D.

Kathy has worked with us over the past two years and without her special help, we would not have been able to complete this book. Kathy has brilliantly taken our ideas and rough drafts and worked her magic so that we have one “voice.” She is an extraordinary person and personally demonstrates a great deal of moral intelligence.

Kathy has a Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Systems from the University of Florida. After working for large organizations (AT&T Bell Laboratories and later Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation) she has flourished as an independent consultant and is now a partner with the Lennick Aberman Group.

Kathy lives and kayaks in the Boston area. Her daughter Erin is a senior at Vassar.

We wish to give a special thanks to Orlo Otteson, our original “crackerjack” researcher who, over four years, helped us successfully tackle the mountainous job of reviewing the vast literature on this subject.

We wish to thank all of our colleagues and friends who have been so important in helping us sharpen our thinking on moral intelligence. Just as important, they encouraged us to continue our research efforts when the word “moral” was not a word one easily used in public discourse.

These people also inspired us by their own demonstration on a day-to-day basis of what it means to live in alignment!

A partial list from Doug: Kay May, my assistant and friend for a quarter century and now one of my business partners; John Wright, the best man at my wedding and my partner in launching my writing career more than 20 years ago with The Simple Genius (You); the CEOs I have been fortunate to work for and learn from—in order of their appearance, they include Harvey Golub, Jeff Stiefler, Dave Hubers, Jim Cracciolo, and now Ken Chenault; my partners at Lennick Aberman—Rick Aberman, Jim Choat, Kathy Jordan, Kay May, Fred Mandell, Judy Skoglund, Ben Smith, and Chuck Wachendorfer; the talented team of senior executives I was privileged to lead at American Express Financial Advisors before changing roles in September 2000—Teresa Hanratty, Brian Heath, Jim Jensen, Marietta Johns, Steve Kumagai, Becky Roloff, Sam Samsel, Norm Weaver, and Mike Woodward; Steve Lennick, my cousin, friend and confidant; Carol Lennick, my sister; Bob Day and Tom Turner, the two men who took a chance on me when I was eager to start my business life at the ripe old age of 21—they trained and developed me; Roy Geer, Row Moriarty, Richard Leider, Larry Wilson, and Doug Baker Sr—all five are mentors and friends for many years; and, very importantly, all the people I've had the opportunity to serve as either their leader or their follower or both.

A partial list from Fred: Kathryn Williams, Eric Rimmer, and Kelly Garramone, my partners at KRW International and my other valued KRW colleagues—Meg Armstrong, Randi Birk, Cari Bixel, Lauren Culbert, Tom Crystal, Ann Depta, Mark Edwards, Dolly Etheridge, John Ficken, Dannie Kennedy, Rita Mendenhall, Kim Merrill, TC Moore, Marsha Nater, Nikky Shaffer, Liz Shamla, Alison Sharpe, Heather Smallman, Ed Starinchak, Mark Tobin, and Don Waletzko and my close personal friends of many years—Frank Verley, Tom McMullen, John Manz, Dwight Cummins, Paul Harris, Bruce McManus, Michael Nation, Paul Brown, and Dave Strofferahn.

Finally, we wish to acknowledge each other, Esmond Harmsworth, and Jim Boyd. This book has been a labor of love, and we have loved laboring together.