Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Warren Opfer, who was an author of Chapter 5 and who developed the three Project Leadership Assessments. The authors would also like to thank Praxis Management International for their contribution in the development of the Project Leadership Assessments.

We thank our department (Management and Entrepreneurship Department, Williams College of Business at Xavier University) for the encouragement provided. We thank the following individuals for their assistance: Marjorie Shriberg, Shannon Borowski, Shirlee James, Donna Waymire, Rose Kutschbach, Joy Davis, and our many students who read drafts of the book. We also thank everyone at Management Concepts for their assistance in all aspects of the book, especially our editor Cathy Kreyche for her helpful comments and support.

We thank our parents; our wives, Elizabeth Kloppenborg and Marjorie Shriberg; and our children, Kathryn and Nicholas Kloppenborg, and David, Michael, Amy, Rebecca, and Steven Shriberg, for their patience, understanding, love, and support, which made this book possible.

Jayashree Venkatraman thanks her parents, Venkataraman Padmanabhan and Lakshmi Venkataraman; her sister, Parvatharavardhini Venkataraman; her brother, Ramakrishnan Venkataraman, and his wife Sabitha Ramakrishnan; her nephew Sanjay; Mr. Durairajan and family for their love and support; her friends who have supported her; and her co-authors for their encouragement and support.

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