Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Her recent book The Connective Edge received wide acclaim. Harold J. Leavitt is the Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of Corporate Pathfinders and Managerial Psychology.