Acknowledgments

I didn’t know how hard it would be to write a business-oriented book until I sat down and actually started writing a business-oriented book. Some things I guess you just have to learn by experience. I do know that if the right people hadn’t done the right things and created the right environment along the way, I’d either still be writing (probably somewhere in Chapter 2) or I would have abandoned the project altogether and moved along to more challenging things—like watching TV. I was blessed to have the perfect combination of smart, generous, and giving people placed in my path to make this book possible.

Thank goodness for good friends like John and M.J. Raymer. You realized how hard it was for me to concentrate on writing a ...

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