Jean Lipman-Blumen and Hal Leavitt have worked together for many years. Jean is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Co-director of The Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership, she has served as Director of the Women's Research Program at the National Institute of Education and as special advisor to the domestic policy staff of the Carter administration. Her recent book The Connective Edge received wide acclaim. Hal is the Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he directed the Stanford Executive Program. He has also taught at INSEAD in France and London Business School. He is the author of Corporate Pathfinders and Managerial Psychology, now in its 5th edition and 18th language.