For the past five years, Dr. White and I have been working together on the Motivating by Appreciation Project. We began by creating the MBA Inventory, which helps individual employees discover their primary appreciation language, their secondary language, and the language that is least meaningful to them. Using this inventory, Dr. White has conducted pilot projects in various business settings. The feedback has been extremely encouraging. We have discovered that, indeed, what makes one employee feel appreciated is not what makes another employee feel appreciated. However, when a supervisor or fellow employee learns to speak the primary appreciation language of the individual, the results are truly significant. It is our desire that the book and the MBA Inventory will be used to help thousands of business leaders create a more positive work climate and enhance the productivity of their employees by learning to speak their primary language of appreciation.