Lee G. Bolman holds the Marion Block Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City. He received a BA (1962) in history and a PhD (1968) in administrative sciences, both from Yale University. Bolman's interests lie at the intersection of leadership and organizations, and he has published numerous articles, chapters, and cases. With Joan Gallos he is coauthor of Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work (2016) and Reframing Academic Leadership (2011). Bolman has been a consultant to corporations, public agencies, universities, and public schools in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. For 20 years he taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also chaired the Institute for Educational Administration and the School Leadership Academy. He has been director and board chair of the Organizational Behavioral Teaching Society and Director of the National Training Laboratories.

Bolman lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife, Joan Gallos, and a mischievous Theory Y cockapoo, Douglas McGregor.

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Terrence E. Deal has served on the faculties of Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, and the University of Southern California. He received his BA (1961) in history from the University of La Verne (ULV), his MA (1966) in social science from California State University at Los Angeles, and his PhD (1972) in sociology and administration from Stanford University. Deal has been a police officer, public school teacher, high school principal, district administrator, and university professor.

His primary research interests are in organizations, symbolism, and change. He is the author of 37 books, including the bestseller Corporate Cultures (with A. A. Kennedy, 1982) and Shaping School Culture (with K. Peterson, 3rd ed., 2016). He has published articles on organizations, change, and leadership. He is a consultant to business, health care, military, educational, and religious organizations domestically and in Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Canada, South America, Japan, and Southeast Asia. He is currently the founder of ULV's Deal Leadership Institute.

Deal lives in San Luis Obispo's Edna Valley, California, with his wife, Sandy, and their cats, Toby and Murphy. He is semiretired from university life. Along with writing, his current avocation is winemaking as a founder of the Edna Ranch Vintner's Guild.

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Bolman and Deal first met in 1976 when they were assigned to co-teach a course on organizations at Harvard University. Steeped in different disciplines on opposite coasts, they disagreed on almost everything. It was the beginning of a challenging but very productive partnership. They have written a number of other books together, including Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit and How Great Leaders Think: the Art of Reframing. Their books have been translated into many languages for readers in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

For five years, Bolman and Deal also codirected the National Center for Educational Leadership, a research consortium of Harvard, Vanderbilt, and the University of Chicago.

The authors appreciate hearing from readers and welcome comments, questions, suggestions, or accounts of experiences that bear on the ideas in the book. Stories of success, failure, or chronic puzzlement are all welcome. Readers can contact the authors at the following addresses:

1. Lee Bolman
2. 37 Salisbury Road
3. Brookline, MA 02445
4. [email protected]

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1. Terry Deal
2. 6625 Via Piedra
3. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
4. [email protected]