Abstract:The number of people we want to recognize is not inconsequential for two reasons.The first is that many CEOs, executives, and colleagues-some of whom we are fortunate to also call friends-devoted thei...The number of people we want to recognize is not inconsequential for two reasons.The first is that many CEOs, executives, and colleagues-some of whom we are fortunate to also call friends-devoted their very scarce time to share their leadership team experiences or engaged in the backbreaking work of providing feedback on chapters-or both.Another reason is that this book is the culmination of over twenty years of reading and reflecting on issues of power, networks, and dynamics at the top of organizations.Our reflection has been informed by executives and scholars who may only now discover that we sat atop their shoulders as we wrote this book.But if the list seems long, it is, in truth, far too short, covering only a small percentage of those who contributed to it.We apologize in advance to those whose contribution we could not bring to our readers' attention due to faulty memory retrieval systems.Although this book's primary audience is executives, we begin by thanking our university colleagues whose support and ideas permeate our work.At INSEAD, Charles Galunic, collaborated with both of us individually before we ever met.Many of the ideas explored in his book Backstage Leadership: The Invisible Work of Highly Effective Leaders, find echo in our own pages.Jose-Luis Alvarez and his coauthor, Silviya Svejenova, whose The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation (2021) offers the most solid account of the transformation of leadership teams we have come across.Maria Guadalupe developed extensive and cutting-edge academic research on the key topic of our book.Andrew Shipilov manages to build bridges among various managerial disciplines, notably strategy and organizational behavior, and his thinking about networks is unique.Finally, it would be impossible to write about multinational leadership teams without acknowledging the challenges of leading across cultures that Erin Meyer has written about so lucidly.At HEC Paris, we must thank Catherine Tanneau, who hired us to teachRead More