JOHN E. TROPMAN is Professor of Nonprofit Administration and Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also principal of his own consulting firm, High Quality Decisions, Ann Arbor, which offers programs and coaching for corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. With teaching experience in a wide range of subjects and fields, including executive education, organizational behavior, and human resources management, Tropman is author of many journal articles and books, including Does America Hate the Poor? The Other American Dilemma (Praeger, 1998) and Entrepreneurial Systems for the 1990s with Gersh Morningstar (1989).