Bruce Tulgan is an adviser to business leaders all over the world and a sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader. He is the founder and CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a management research and training firm, as well as RainmakerThinking.training, an online training company. Bruce is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling It's Okay to Be the Boss (2007), the classic Managing Generation X (1995), Not Everyone Gets a Trophy (2009), It's Okay to Manage Your Boss (2010), FAST Feedback (1999), and his most recent book, The 27 Challenges Managers Face (2014). His work has been the subject of thousands of news stories around the world. He has written pieces for numerous publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, Training magazine, and Human Resources. Bruce also holds a fifth-degree black belt in classical Okinawan Uechi Ryu karate. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife Dr. Debby Applegate, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning biography The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (2006), as well as Madam; The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler (forthcoming). Bruce can be reached by e-mail at brucet@rainmakerthinking.com or you can follow him on Twitter @brucetulgan..