ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are so many people without whom this book would never have seen the light of day. Thank you to Alan Weiss and his community of intrepid consultants who gave me the inspiration for the book, made me so welcome, and were so generous and kind. Thank you to the people who have influenced me along the way, including Robert and Rosalind Fritz; Paul Spain, Michael Nolan and my friends at Sheppard Moscow; Bruce Moats, Lisa Kopp, and all my friends and colleagues at IFC and the World Bank. Thanks to Marshall Goldsmith, Elizabeth Littlefield, Bruce McNamer, Jenny Scott, Lars Thunell, and Elizabeth Vazquez who generously gave their time to be featured in a leader profile.

Thanks to my girlfriends, without whom this life would have been so much poorer, Caitriona Palmer, Caroline Sergeant, Caroline Goldie, Lisa Greenman, Tania Banotti, Helen Loughman, Olga Harrington, Tesa Conlin, Caroline Robb, Corinne Figueredo, Amanda Ellis, Maria Pedersen, Mary Challinor, Jean Duff, Kelly Widelska, Evelyn Farkas, Dorothy Berry, and many others. I have been blessed in my neighbors and friends. I’m grateful to Alvaro and Janice, who always took me in. I have also been blessed in my family, my mother and brother Neal, and my darling sister Barbara, who is also a best friend. And most of all, I have been blessed to know and love my son, Sam Beesley, “The best boy any mother could ever have had.”