About the Authors

David Napoli's leadership and management change programs/workshops, developed over several years, provided the inspiration for this book. More than 5000 people across Australia have attended his leadership and management change programs which, many said, changed their lives. David is Director of an investment group and still consults to business. He is a senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, where he has taught on the Master of Leadership and Management (MLM) and Master of Future Studies (MFS). He has a particular interest in challenging managers to decide whether they are really interested in extraordinary business performance or whether they merely seek the fantasy of control from above.

Alma Whiteley is Professor of International Human Resources at the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology. Alma inaugurated the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program and is interested in such questions as "what should business be?" Alma teaches philosophy and business management, organizational research and cross cultural management. Alma, like David, is interested in the twin subjects of change and extraordinary performance. She has published two books on change and two books on management, one based on human resource strategies in China. She contributes scholarly papers on change and organizational theory as well as consulting in this area.

Kathrine (Katrina) Selmer Johansen is a Registered Psychologist and also has qualifications in anthropology where her interest of group behaviour, identity and culture began. She evaluates development programs, is a process consultant, and a rigorous researcher using qualitative methods. She runs several of her own businesses and has been involved in the fashion, hospitality, art, mining and steel industries. For the past 10 years she has also given much of her time to helping people and groups in underdeveloped countries become self sufficient with sustainability as a central theme. She values intangible assets in complex adaptive systems such as organizations, specializes in developing emotional competency and is ECI accredited.