Acknowledgments

I am indebted to my wife, Janet, for her guidance, patience, and assistance in helping select concepts and case studies and for her special talent in shaping this manuscript.

I also acknowledge the superb contribution of my children. Dr. Sarah S. Fallaw provided much food for thought regarding life as well as job-related satisfaction measures and concepts. Brad Stanley’s inputs about topic selection were invaluable. He also won the “What Title?” contest.

Once again, the Survey Research Center, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, did an outstanding job collecting and tabulating the survey data for this book. Special thanks are accorded to Dr. James J. Bason, director of the Survey Research Center; Kathleen J. Shinholser, “key statistician and number cruncher”; Linda J. White; Zelda R. McDowell; Mary Ann Mauney; and Cindy Burroughs.

Acknowledged is the extraordinary effort and brilliant work carried out by Heather Breedlove, CPA, and Teresa Miller, CPA, JD, in crunching numbers.

I am most appreciative and grateful to Frank “Provin” Bulloch and his colleagues at the Edwards Institute for Social Research for designing and developing the content analysis of the factors that account for success.

John Connerat and Tim Fallaw of Connerat and Fallaw did an outstanding job in enhancing the quality control system for this project.

And again, a million thank-yous to Bill Marianes of Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for his great empathy and expertise in representing me.

I owe a deep debt of gratitude to my editor, Chris Schillig, for her sage editorial comments and superb efforts in molding this manuscript.

Many, many thank-yous are accorded to Tom Thornton, president of Andrews McMeel Publishing, for his continued interest in and support of my work.

Special thanks go out to Teddy “Scoop” Graham, Sharon Weaver, and Kerry Spivey for their help in editing and word processing.