Acknowledgments

This is a highly collaborative book so it gives me particular pleasure to acknowledge the extensive help I’ve received from colleagues and from the leaders of the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force.

I’m deeply grateful to Catherine Fredman for her valuable help—without her editorial skills and keen judgment I could not have cleared the hurdles involved in writing this fast track book. I’m also extremely appreciative of the efforts of my research team at the Center for Work-Life Policy—Diana Forster, Joanne Gordon, Shelley Haynes, Ripa Rashid, Laura Sherbin, Eytan Sosnovich, and Karen Sumberg. A special thanks to Peggy Shiller—who led the team and pulled out all the stops to ensure we hit the tough, tight deadlines.

In addition, I’m enormously grateful to Melinda Merino, my editor at the Harvard Business Press, Molly Friedrich, my longtime literary agent, and Courtney Schinke.

Finally, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the business leaders who shaped this study. The senior executives who appear in the pages of this book had the guts and the vision to identify and wrestle with the painful but enormously important talent challenges thrown up by this Great Recession. It took courage and I thank you.