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PREFACE


        Lawler, Mike Losey, Paul McKinnon, Susan Meisinger,
        Henry Mintzberg, Chris Packard, Jeffrey Pfeffer, CK
        Prahalad, Scott Richards, Bonner Ritchie, Libby Sartain,
        Judy Seegmiller, Norm Smallwood, Kate Sweetman, and
        Jon Younger. We owe a special thanks to Danny Stern, who
        advised us as a friend and agent. This book would not have
        come to fruition without the skillful shepherding of Mary
        Glenn and her staff at McGraw-Hill.
          We are also indebted to professional colleagues who have
        written about these subjects with enormous insight and
        whose ideas inform our thinking: Viktor Frankl, whose mar-
        velous book captures the search for meaning in impossible
        circumstances; Judy Bardwick, who has been so insightful
        at capturing many of these insights; Lynda Gratton, who
        brings a keen and kind eye to helping people find purpose
        at work; Kenneth Moore, who has the ability to bring spiri-
        tual insights into the work setting; Martin Seligman and his
        colleagues, who have shaped the field of positive psychol-
        ogy; and individuals such as Jacques Lusseyran, Teeda Butt
        Mam, Imaculee Ilibagiza, and Joseph Smith, whose stories
        of meaning making in the face of the most meaning-robbing
        forms of human suffering have encouraged us to believe
        that meaning making is not only always possible but also
        imperative.
          We also thank our professional colleagues at the RBL
        Group (rbl.net) and Sixteen Stones Center for Growth (six
        teenstones.net), who touch our lives as both thought partners
        and advisers. We are most grateful to participants in work-
        shops and retreats who have shared their stories, insights,
        and honest hopes for the future.






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