JOHN P. (JACK) STACK is president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation. Stack, a graduate of Elmhurst College, came to SRC in 1979 as the plant manager of International Harvester (IH). In 1983, Stack and the SRC employees bought the company from IH and have turned it into, what Inc. magazine has proclaimed, "one of America's most competitive small companies." He is the author of the books The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome. Jack has been married to his wife, Betsy, for forty-seven years and is the father of five children and grandfather of ten.

DARREN DAHL is an experienced ghostwriter and business journalist, having written for publications like The New York Times, Inc., and Forbes. Darren has also ghostwritten multiple books, several of which have landed on multiple bestseller lists. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his wife, Stephanie.