Samuel B. Bacharach, the McKelvey-Grant Professor at Cornell University, is the cofounder of the Bacharach Leadership Group, providing the skills of pragmatic leadership to numerous organizations. He is the author or editor of more than twenty academic books, more than one hundred articles, and a number of popular practitioner-oriented books, including¿The Agenda Mover. His leadership training material has been used by such corporations as Cisco, SunGard, PepsiAmericas, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Citigroup, Chubb, and Gap, as well as Cornell University, Lehigh University, and the University of Virginia. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of pragmatic leadership and a regular columnist for¿Inc.