LEE G. BOLMAN pioneered the study of business life and learning in their best-selling book Reframing Organizations (1991) from Jossey-Bass. Bolman is an author, teacher, and consultant who currently holds the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He consults worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools. Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Education at the Rossier School, University of Southern California, and a consultant to business, health care, military, educational, and religious organizations worldwide. He is the coauthor of sixteen books, including the best-selling Corporate Cultures (1983, with A. A. Kennedy) and Managing the Hidden Organization (1994)

"No two authors are better equipped than Bolman and Deal to address and answer the seminal dilemma of our time-the difference between making a living and making a life. They lead the way to discover how to lead a spirited life." --Warren Bennis, distinguished professor of business administration, University of Southern California, and author of Managing the Dream "Wonderful lessons about leadership in a very personal story of a relationship between a teacher and a student. It is teaching and storytelling at its best." --James A. Autry, author, Life and Work "Bolman and Deal understand that organizations are filled with living, breathing, feeling human beings, people who need more than a paycheck, more than a performance review, more than a promotion. This is a deceptively powerful realization for any leader." --Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Temptations of a CEO: Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive