Blair Sheppard is the global leader for strategy and leadership at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a network of professional services firms committed to solving business s most prominent worldwide issues. He is also professor emeritus and dean emeritus of Duke University s Fuqua School of Business. During his time at Duke, he was the founding CEO and chairman of Duke Corporate Education and was the principal force behind opening Duke s campus in China. Five of the coauthors are directors in global strategy and leadership at PwC and one is a leading business journalist.