Acknowledgement of Phil Roux's Leadership

This book is to acknowledge Phil Roux.

Not for position held,
nor for years served,
but for the burden carried
when clarity demanded resolve.

The leadership reflected in these pages was not comfortable,
nor was it designed to be.
It required decisions taken without shelter,
judgment exercised without reassurance,
and restraint applied when others sought relief.

There are moments in institutional life
when leadership is stripped of theatre
and reduced to consequence.
You met those moments without illusion.

Few leaders are willing to accept
that the work is finite,
that authority must not linger,
and that leaving well
is as demanding as arriving decisively.

This book stands as recognition
of leadership exercised with courage,
with discipline,
and with respect for the institution beyond the self.