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ac know ledg ments I could not have written Th ’s Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom e CEO without the encouragement and support of a number of Columbia Busi- ness School colleagues. Rita McGrath, the most prolifi c writer among our Executive Education faculty team (her latest off Discovery- ering being Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Pro cess to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportu- nity, 2009) was my central catalyst. We were delayed by weather on one of our return fl alo, NY, aft er working with M&T Bank. Dur- ights from Buff ing that three- hour layover at the airport we wrote the initial outline for the book. David Beim, whose case study of Take Two Interactive is the cornerstone of chapter 5, was my entrée into working with the Outstand- ing Directors Exchange (ODX). David, aft er a 25- year career in investment banking, is now Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School. His recent writing on the root cause of our fi nancial crisis is in- dicative of his insight, such as his March 2009 article in Forbes, “It’s All About Debt: Who Caused the Global Economic Collapse? We All Did.” Bill Duggan, the author of three recent books on strategic intuition as the key to innovation—Napoleon’s Glance: Th (2002); Th e e Secret of Strategy Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens (2003); and Strategic Intu- ition: Th (2007)— was my soul e Creative Spark in Human Achievement mate in my work with Columbia Business School Publishing (CBSP). He

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