I was brought into Prudential Retirement in the spring of 2004 as the head of integration. The company had just acquired a big division from the Cigna Corporation, and we were trying to merge the two cultures together. In the beginning it was like trying to merge the Red Sox and the Yankees; we had two distinct cultures — one from New England and the other one from the New York/New Jersey area. Both were very strong, very passionate, and very powerful. As you can imagine, trying to put these two cultures together was a challenge. The president at the time happened to be a graduate of the University of Michigan. He had just come back from a session there where he had met Bob Quinn and Kim Cameron and learned about positive organizational scholarship. He brought them into the company to help us create something that was really different and outstandingly unique. We embarked on a journey that fit with a lot of things I had always wanted to do and was consistent with my own outlook on life. It helped us very successfully integrate the cultures, and the company went on to produce some record earnings. I think that POS helped us create the benchmark for how you take two distinct companies and put them together.