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First published in the United States of America by Harvard Business School Press 2000

Published in Penguin Books 2002

Copyright © Rosamund Zander and Benjamin Zander, 2000

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“I Dwell in Possibility” by Emily Dickinson is reprinted by permission of the publishers and the trustees of Amherst College, from The Poems of Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson, editor, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., c/o Writers House, Inc., as agent for the proprietor. Copyright 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr., copyright renewed 1991 by Coretta Scott King.

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Quotation from the movie The Shawshank Redemption is from The Shawshank Redemption , directed by Frank Darabont, produced by Niki Marvin. Copyright © 1994 Castle Rock Entertainment.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Zander, Rosamund Stone, 1942–

The art of possibility / Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-101-66404-9

1. Possibility. I. Zander, Benjamin, 1939– II. Title.

BC199.P7 Z36 2000

153.7—dc21 00-033537

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