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Dr. Christopher P. Neck, Ph D, is currently an associate professor of Management at Arizona State University, where he held the title “University Master Teacher.” From 1994 to 2009, he was part ofthe Pamplin College of Business faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his Ph D in Management from Arizona State University and his MBA from Louisiana State University. Neck is author and/or coauthorof 27 books, including Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2019, Sage); Get a Kick Out of Life: Expect the Best of Your Body, Mind, and Soul at Any Age(2017, Clovercroft Publishing); Fit to Lead: The Proven 8-week Solution for Shaping Up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career (1st ed., 2004, St. Martin’s Press; 2nd ed., 2012, Carpenter’s Sons Publishing);Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence, 6th ed. (2013, Pearson); The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001, Berrett-Koehler); For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997, Amacom Books); and Medicine for the Mind: Healing Wordsto Help You Soar, 4th ed. (Wiley, 2012). Neck is also the coauthor of the principles of managementtextbook, Management: A Balanced Approach to the 21st Century (1st ed., 2013, Wiley; 2nd ed., 2017, Wiley; 3rd ed. 2021, Sage); an introduction to entrepreneurship textbook, Entrepreneurship (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2020, Sage); an introduction to organizational behavior textbook, Organizational Behavior (1st ed., 2017, Sage; 2nd ed., 2019, Sage), and an introduction to business textbook(Introduction to Business, 2022, Sage).Dr. Neck’s research specialties include employee/executive fitness, self-leadership, leadership, groupdecision-making processes, and self-managing teams. He has over 150 publications in the form ofbooks, chapters, and articles in various journals. Some of the outlets in which Neck’s work has appearedinclude Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, The Journal of Managerial Psychology, Executive Excellence, H