1.5 - About University

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSA book is never the work of the authors alone. In particular, a book of this nature leansheavily on the ideas of the people acknowledged at the beginning of each leadership tool.We thank these inspirational people for blazing a trail the rest of us can follow.This book would be incomprehensible without the timely and brilliant editing of EilisHiebert. With loving care, and without bruising the delicate egos of the writers, Eilis convertedtortured sentences into readable text.Some friends and colleagues contributed material to the book: Clem Blakeslee, MelBlitzer, George Campbell, Layton Fisher, Wilf Hiebert, Diane MacDonald, and UrsulaWohlfarth.A number of other friends provided constructive feedback and encouragement, particularlyin the sensitive early stages of development: Joan Batycki, Mel Blitzer, GeorgeCampbell, Wes Carter, Wilf Hiebert, Peter Justo, Diane MacDonald, Ben Macht, BernieNovokowsky, Brenda Spilker, Jim Webber, Ursula Wohlfarth, and Ken Zdunich. Thankyou all. Cathy Klatt and Leighton Wilks were very helpful with manuscript preparation.Richard Narramore of McGraw-Hill cheerfully coached us throughout: from the ideaof the book, to its sponsoring, through many doubts and questions, and through dozensof drafts. Thank you, Richard.Finally, many people encouraged us in the broad sense of providing ideas, support,and counsel at critical times. These people inspired us with their “you can do it” attitude.Thus, in addition to those listed above, we express our appreciation to our spouses, CathyKlatt and Eilis Hiebert; our sons, Bryan and Jeff Klatt, Paul and Quinn Hiebert; and to theMilis family, Bernie and MJ Novokowsky, Norm Smallwood, Clem and Mary BlakesleeGeoff Bellman, the late Bernice Mattinson, David Irvine, and Shaun Murphy.xxxi