"Vision Accomplished is delightful.
 
Galligan shows us how this small but feisty railroad survived over the not-so-kind years as the character and personalities of its leaders kept a long-standing company culture intact.
 
Emphasizing how they met the challenge without burying the reader in numbers makes it a page turner.
 
An ideal book for any MBA candidate"
 
W.C. (Bill) Lyman.
 
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"With the publication of Vision Accomplished, the KCS story is made eminently readable by no less than Bill Galligan who led its communications team.
 
While the book brings to life its unique personalities, markets, and culture, more importantly it makes the company's evolution easier to understand by highlighting underlying themes, my favorites being long term thinking, respect, culture, non-traditional strategy, and lack of false modesty.
 
With KCS' "Vision Accomplished" as the result of the CPKC merger, the timing is good for this book to inspire others.
 
Hopefully the quality of their work will be as good as Mr. Galligan's"
 
Henry Posner III - Chairman Iowa Interstate Railroad and Adjunct Professor Dietrich College of the Humanities Carnegie Mellon University.
 
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"Bill Galligan has opened a window on the history of an important railroad that historians and journalists have mostly ignored.
 
His account of how Kansas City Southern survived one crisis after another and then flourished in this century is riveting.
 
Read it and be amazed at what determined people can do."
 
Fred Frailey - - Formerly Special Correspondent and Columnist Trains magazine and author of "Last Train to Texas".
 
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William Galligan was employed at Kansas City Southern from 1992 to 2018, responsible for the company's investor relations program as well as being involved in special projects.
 
Now retired, he splits his time between Kansas City and Guilford, Connecticut.
 
Publisher: Indiana University Press (6 Feb 2024).
 
Language: English.
 
Hardcover: 376 pages.
 
ISBN-10: 0253068339.
 
ISBN-13: 978-0253068330.
 
Item weight: 658 grams.
 
Dimensions: 15.01 x 23.01 centimetres.
 
Cost: $64.77