Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without a lot of help and support. I’d like to thank the following people for their contributions and encouragement.

A special thank you to Guy Kawasaki for his visual foreword.

Thank you to Laura Norman at Pearson who encouraged me to write a third edition and to my editors Victor Gavenda and Linda Laflamme, as well as Tracey Croom and her production team, David Van Ness and Becky Chapman-Winter.

Thank you to Nancy and Mark Duarte and all the remarkable staff at Duarte, Inc., in Silicon Valley for their support over the years.

Thank you to the many contributors to the book including Seth Godin, Dr. Ross Fisher, Jon Schwabish, Gihan Perera, Masayoshi Takahashi, Sunni Brown, Clement Cazalot, Markuz Wernli Saito, and Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt. Thank you to Phil Waknell and Pierre Morsa in Paris and the Gapminder foundation in Stockholm.

Thank you to David S. Rose, Daniel Pink, Dan Heath, Rick Heath, Rosamund Zander, Jim Quirk, Dan Roam, Carmine Galloand, Debbie Thorn, CZ Robertson, Ric Bretschneider, Howard Cooperstein, and Deryn Verity for their enlightened advice and content in the early stages of the process going back to the first edition. And at the Oregon coast, thanks to Brian and Leslie Cameron, Mark and Liz Reynolds, and Matt and Sheryl Sandvik Reynolds.

Here in Japan, thank you to Shigeki Yamamoto, Tom Perry, Darren Saunders, Daniel Rodriguez, Nathan Bryan, Jay Klaphake, Jiri Mestecky, and Stephen Zurcher.

I’d like to thank the thousands of readers of the Presentation Zen book and website and to all those who have contacted me over the years to share their stories and examples, especially Les Posen in Australia.

And, of course, my biggest supporter in all this was my wife, who was always understanding and a great source of inspiration and ideas. To my children: You are the reason I want to wake up every morning. To our dog Chappy and two cats, Luke and Kona: You are the persistent alarm clocks that actually get me up!