First and foremost, we are indebted to the five head coaches featured in this book. Thank you Andy, John, Jon, Mike, and Mike for giving us the time to conduct lengthy interviews with you during our visits at your summer camps prior to the start of the 2003 season. Knowing you work long hours during the preseason, we deeply appreciate your giving us the time to share your insight on leadership with us. Obviously, without your input, this book could not have been written.
We are also grateful to the following people with the Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers organizations: Mark Arteaga, Derek Boyko, Susan Broberg, Butch Buchanico, Rick Burkholder, Brad Childress, Garrett Giemont, Gil Haskell, Erik Kennedy, Bill Nayes, Linda O’Hora, Gary Reynolds, Leslie Scarandino, Sal Sunseri, Arleatta Williams, and Carol Wilson. We thank each of you for your valuable contributions to this book.
A special thank-you goes to Misti Candreva, Carole Terrell, and Marlys Zusy, three special women at Professional Sports Representation, Inc. You’re simply the best! We also thank Debbie Watts, who did a terrific job transcribing our recorded interviews. Hats off to our literary agent, Basil Kane. Basil’s belief and support early on in this project reinforced our belief that we were on to something very special. It has been a pleasure to work with Mauro DiPreta, our editor at HarperCollins, a real professional and a super guy. The same goes for Mauro’s assistant, Joelle Yudin, another star at HarperCollins.
Like the five head coaches featured in this book, we are blessed to have a great group of people on our team. As we learned during the writing of this book on leadership, nobody does it alone.