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xxx Acknowledgements

editorial assistance; Jack Bergstrand for helping with positioning and fine
tuning the 6 Box Leadership diagnostic, and providing an endorsement as
well as feedback on an earlier draft of this book; John Adair for inspiring
me to write this book and providing an endorsement; Lynda Gratton for
encouraging me to write this book; Julian Birkinshaw, Richard D’Aveni,
Marshall Goldsmith, Michael Grove, Jules Goddard, Sunil Gupta, Carsten
Hentrich, Sajda Qureshi, Franz Röösli, Richard Straub, Fons Trompenaars
and Paul Zak for providing endorsements of this book; Rick Wartzman for
providing an endorsement and feedback; Steve Denning for writing the
Foreword and sharing his wisdom and passion to achieve the management
paradigm shift; William Hopper for inspiring me to set up the Drucker
Society London and for providing an endorsement and feedback on my
book draft; Arie de Geus for sharing his wisdom and for all the inspirational
conversations on management innovation we shared and for writing an
endorsement for this book; Bruce Lewin for helping with an earlier version
of the organizational diagnostic tool, Performance Ecosystem; Chris Walton
and Karen Welch for providing feedback on an early version of the 5 Level
Emergent Leadership Model; Mark Hawkswell for introducing me to some
amazing books that shaped the development of the 5 Level Emergent
Leadership Model; Peter Blue for his help with developing the 6 Box
Leadership software platform; Phil Shepherd for providing an innovative
software to help me structure my ideas for the book; Cliff Findlay for
advising me on how to improve the content of this book and position it on
the market; Jo Brightwell and her team for producing graphic designs for
this book and branding; Rob Wirszycz for his advice on business aspects
of this work and for providing an endorsement; Gordan Bosnjak and Alec
Saiko for helping with website development; Fiona Leslie, Michele Horaney,
Cory Torrella and Jan Schapira for help with book promotion; Andrea
Rumenjak for helping with quantitative data analysis; Barbara Allan and
other colleagues from Westminster Business School for their support for my
work over the years; Dan Cable and other staff from the London Business
School for enabling me to share my models and ideas with hundreds of
MBA and MSc students; Fran Kruc, David Chan, Peter Starbuck, Mary
Wu, Alex Ritson, Pablo Lloyd and other volunteers from the Drucker
Society London for spreading the positive ripples I started; Gary Hamel