Acknowledgments

Numerous individuals, organizations, and environments have contributed to the production of this volume. We are grateful to Berrett-Koehler for convincing us to make room in our schedules to do a third edition. We thank everyone at BK for caring about our books and making them the best they can be.

Many of the ideas in this book were the product of, or refined in, numerous discussions that Dave has had with members of the International Organization Network (ION). The development of this book was based on the work of the Cultural Intelligence Project. Led by Dave, the members of the original Cultural Intelligence Project are Kevin Au, Zeynep Aycan, Richard Brislin, Jean-Luc Cerdin, Bjørn Ekelund, Efrat Elron, Mila Lazarova, Martha Maznevski, Andre Pekerti, Steven Poelmans, Elizabeth Ravlin, and Günter Stahl. We are especially grateful to Stacey Fitzsimmons and Yuan Liao for their contributions to our work.

This volume is informed not only by our academic study but also by the numerous cross-cultural encounters that make culture come alive for us. Therefore, we thank all those people who have helped to educate us and beg forgiveness from those we have offended along the way through our own lack of cultural intelligence.