In his classic book Alan Dershowitz defines kutzpah, however spelt, as "boldness, assertivenes, a willingness to demand what is due, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows" Another Harvard alumnus, Rodney Marks, now a 'professor at large' at the University of NSW, has had the kutzpah to write a comprehensive dictionary of management terms called the contradictionary, that did not include kutzpah.