What else did Stuart say?
Stuart has his own foreword in the book — you’ll find that there.
Suffice to say, I’ve known him since the day we both started at The Manufacturing Institute.
So yes, when I needed to know whether this book had legs — or wings — I reached out to people who mattered.
Critical people. Not critics.
The ones who’d shaped how I think about change —through a spark, a reframe, a sharp question, a book recommendation, a conference talk, a well-judged silence in a small group meeting.
They didn’t owe me anything.
They remembered me. Some barely knew me. Some wouldn’t “know” me.
And I wasn’t paying them for polite notes.
This was the moment I realised what Advocates of Change really meant.
