Dr. Wood was a cofounder of Axiom Consulting LLC in 2002 after contributing over thirty years of executive leadership experience from a number of companies including Savin Business Machines, and IBM. He has most recently founded the Wood Research Institute to explore issues related to how to sustain business success, diversity, managing and negotiating in multicultural environments, expatriate problems/issues, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility.His focus is on developing business and education models to measure the results achieved by identifying the strategic initiatives that were used. This book is based on research of 73,821 globally traded public companies. Astonishingly, his research revealed that during the period from 1981 through 2005, only thirty-eight of those companies were able to sustain revenue growth and profitability each year consecutively. He unveiled eight core business elements that each of those thirty-eight companies had in common that helped them achieve sustainability.