Acknowledgments

We are deeply grateful to many who have helped us throughout the years in our research, teaching, testing, and learning.

First, our appreciation to our families for your influence on us. Thanks for the love and support that has changed us, inspired us, and enabled us. Thank you particularly for your sacrifice and patience when we were far from home—or at home, but overly focused, head down over a keyboard.

Second, thanks to our colleagues, associates, and team members at VitalSmarts who help in hundreds of ways—working to achieve our mission, serving customers, training the skills to help change lives, and supporting one another with care, loyalty, and competence. To all (all is now a large number) we say thanks. Highlighting just a few is tough, but necessary. So an additional thanks to James Allred, Terry Brown, Mike Carter, Jeff Gibbs, Jeff Johnson, Lance Garvin, Justin Hale, Emily Hoffman, Todd King, Brittney Maxfield, Mary McChesney, John Minert, David Nelson, Stacy Nelson, Rich Rusick, Andy Shimberg, Joanne Staheli, Yan Wang, Steve Willis, Mike Wilson, Paul Yoachum, and Rob Youngberg.

Third, a special thanks to Bob Foote, Chase McMillan, and Mindy Waite, who continuously provided us with extraordinary logistical support, attention to detail, and insight.

And fourth, we’re overwhelmingly grateful to our friends and partners across the planet who have turned these ideas from an interesting read into a global force for positive change. We are inspired by the soul and skill they bring to our cooperative effort.

Thanks to our U.S. associates who are gifted teachers and powerful influencers:

Doug Finton

Ilayne Geller

Tamara Kerr

Jim Mahan

Jim Munoa

Kurt Southam

Larry Peters

Margie Mauldin

Mike Quinlan

Murray Low

Neil Staker

Paul McMurray

Richard Lee

Shirley Poertner

Simon Lia

And finally we express gratitude to the partners and friends who have supported our work around the globe:

Australia—Geoff Flemming and Grant Donovan

Brazil—Josmar Arrais China—Jenny Xu

Egypt—Hisham El Bakry

France—Cathia Birac and Dagmar Doring

India—Yogesh Sood

Indonesia—Nugroho Supangat

Italy—Giovanni Verrecchia

Malaysia—V. Sitham

Netherlands—Sander van Eijnsbergen and Willeke Kremer

Poland—Marek Choim

Singapore—James Chan

South Africa—Helene Vermaak and Jay Owens

South Korea—Ken Gimm

Switzerland—Arturo Nicora

Thailand—TP Lim

U.K.—Grahame Robb and Richard Pound