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.
