Magnificent Leadership

Introduction

Before it was this book, The Making Magnificence Project^® was a yearning to understand. In the early spring of 2009, life as I knew it essentially went into a blender. After my long marriage dissolved, I exited the business we’d built, a greenhouse operation begun from scratch and grown to success over 15 years, and the home we’d made, located at the greenhouse. In the ensuing 13 months, I would have to put down both of my beloved older dogs in short succession of one another. Save for two dear friends, I was as close to anchorless as I’d ever been. And there was a blank canvas in front of me.

I read a lot of memoir during that time, and although the details of those other lives didn’t always exactly mirror those of my own, their ...