Acknowledgments

Most of what is in this book has been generously offered by others. As authors, we just brought it all together. We stand on the shoulders of giants in mind training, science, and business.

This book is dedicated to the masters who have role-modeled and taught the practices of mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion for decades, including the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, Lakha Lama, Yangsi Rinpoche, Alan Wallace, Matthieu Ricard, Venerable Antonio Satta, Stephan Pende, Nyingje Chichester, Venerable Charles, Glen Svensson, and Sangye Khadro.

The book has gained its scientific rigor and validity through the work and support of great scientists, including Richard Davidson, Judson Brewer, Paul J. Zak, Dan Siegel, Hans Melo, and Paul Ekman.

Extraordinarily kind and wise business leaders have generously shared their insights and experiences and time. There are far too many to list them all, but a few must be named, including Dominic Barton, Michael Rennie, Arne Sorenson, Chris Schmidt, Nate Boaz, Rahul Varma, and Loren Shuster.

As nonprofessional writers, we have been blessed by incredible editorial support by Jeff Leeson of Benson Collister. Jeff’s commitment to clarity and simplicity has helped distill complex matter into clear insights. Our agent Jim Levine, of Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency, is passionate about bringing the practices of this book into leadership. Jim’s dedication has been a great driving force in the process. Our editor Tim Sullivan from Harvard Business Press has had our back throughout. His firmness and clarity have provided great guidance and direction.

Completing a manuscript is one thing; bringing it to the world is another. We want to thank Laurie Harting, our freelance editor and writer, for her passion for our work, strategic content review, and postproduction project management. We are also grateful to work once again with Mark Fortier and Pamela Peterson of Fortier Public Relations. Mark and Pamela are great at what they do and wonderful partners in marketing and media engagement. We also want to acknowledge the amazing team at HBR Press. In particular, we would like to thank Julie Devoll, Keith Pfeffer, Sally Ashworth, Kenzie Travers, and Monica Jainschigg.

Finally, this book is dedicated to our families, who supported and inspired us throughout the entire process: Mark, Ben, Nick, and Cam and Caroline, Florien, Emil, and Joris.