Mandatory Greatness: The 12 Laws of Driving Exceptional Performance Paperback - 2013

DALE DAUTEN

As founder of The Innovators' Lab(R), an organization devoted to developing and testing new ideas in management and marketing, Dale has done idea generation with dozens of organizations, including Honeywell, General Dynamics, Caterpillar, and NASA.

His consulting work includes educational programs for Certified Innovation Mentors, and his work on creating a culture of innovation yielded a patent-pending new advance on brainstorming called BrainTouring(TM).

Dale has been researching achievers since his student days at Arizona State and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His early work prompted a government publication to call him a "guru" to White House staffers, and since then, his books have developed a following worldwide, especially in Japan.

In addition to co-writing with J.T. O'Donnell the country's leading career newspaper column, "J.T. & Dale Talk Jobs," for many years Dale wrote the syndicated newspaper column "The Corporate Curmudgeon" and has written seven previous books, including his most popular book, The Gifted Boss.

He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

JEANINE TANNER "J.T." O'DONNELL

J.T. is founder and CEO of the leading career advice site/blog, Careerealism.com and for the provocative site CareerHMO - known as "the cure for chronic job search." Her job search accelerator program (JSAP), is recognized as a cutting-edge resource for conducting a "disruptive" job search. She has assembled a team of career coaches and subject-matter specialists who, as approved topic experts, contribute to the sites, allowing daily updates to the content.

She describes herself as being a "field expert" on careers and workplaces, working with individuals as a career strategist and corporations as a trainer. She speaks regularly on the subjects within her book, CAREEREALISM: A Smart Approach to A Satisfying Career, which includes her highly acclaimed career success methodology called, The G.L.O.W. Method.

In addition to her work on "J.T. & Dale Talk Jobs," she is frequently quoted in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and many others.

She is a graduate of Tufts University in Human Factors Engineering, and after more than a decade in corporate life, has headed her career consulting/coaching firm since 2001.

She lives near Boston.