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Professionally, we thank our partners in our consulting practice for help-
ing produce an environment that stimulates great work and intellectual
stimulus.
On more personal notes, I (Mark) thank my partner in life, my wife
Lisa, for everything that you have ever said (and not said) to support me
and help me achieve what I have, and hope to in our future. You make
the hard stuff worthwhile and always put me in my place when I most
need it. I thank my parents for their support throughout the years and of
great particular contribution my father for inspiring me, and causing me
to truly enjoy and understand—at a wonderfully early age—the thing that
makes the world go round—business. I thank Sylvia Eskind for inspiring
me to not wait for the ship to come in, and for everything else that she
gave me. I thank Tim Ogilvie for being my first, truest, and greatest men-
tor—onboarding me like no other into a successful career in management
consulting—giving me the cultural, social, strategic, and early (and often)
career support that has proved so meaningful to my career.
I (Lilith) thank my husband, Brett, for all of your support. Your encour-
agement, love, and perspective are invaluable. I could not have accom-
plished half the things I have in life if not for our partnership. A special
thanks on this endeavor for being our first reader and giving us the frank
feedback. I thank my parents for all of their encouragement and support
from an early age to aspire and achieve whatever I set my mind to. I also
want to thank Pam Knox, for taking on many new responsibilities at Kaiser
Associates allowing me to transition from my development role to that of
author and back to consultant. I thank Kevin Dell’Oro for encouraging
my return to Kaiser Associates.
Together, we thank our kids—Mark’s (Ainsley, Sarah, Abigail) and
Lilith’s (Tyler and Bryce)—for making life fun (and teaching us that a
self applied haircut is just a haircut, not a referendum on our ability to
parent, consult, and write a book at the same time) and for giving us feed-
back when we most need it—in the form of hugs and smiles—that we are
doing the right things.