DAVID L. BRADFORD is Senior Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a consultant to such leading companies as Levi Strauss and Raychem.

ALLAN R. COHEN is Chief Academic Officer and Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College. He also consults to leading companies including General Electric and Polaroid.

David L. Bradford and Allan R. Cohen are coauthors of the bestsellers Managing for Excellence and Influence Without Authority, published by Wiley. Cohen is also the editor of The Portable MBA in Management (also from Wiley).