The Opposable Mind

Acknowledgments

I HAVE MANY FRIE NDS AND COLLEAGUES to thank for essential help on this book. First and foremost, I owe a huge intellectual debt of gratitude to my two closest thinking partners, Hilary Austen Johnson and Mihnea Moldoveanu, without whom I would not have been able to write this book.

I met Hilary in 1995 during the research for her dissertation at Stanford University (Hilary Austen Johnson, “Artistry in Practice,” 1998, available in the Stanford University Library) under James March and Elliot Eisner. She introduced me to March’s work in organizational learning and Eisner’s in qualitative research, both of which played instrumental roles in the development of the book. Hilary’s dissertation explored how a person develops artistic ...