I OFFER heartfelt, glowing thanks to:

• Florian Hoornaar, for having this stupid idea to begin with—and for being so patient with me ever since.
• Rapunza, for helping me to both finish this book and become a better person.
• Alfred Boland, for being my favorite graphic designer of all time and making me look so cool.
• Pilar Orti, for being the best collaborative competitor a girl could ask for.
• Jurgen Appelo, for the years of mentorship, opportunities, and trust.
• The Happy Melly team and community, for the support, promotion, mentorship, and happiness experiments.
• The Virtual Team Talk community for the support, fun, and virtual coworking.
• Gretchen Wegner, for being the best virtual coworker I have yet to meet in person—and for inventing virtual pie.
• Laura Mazer, for your amazering and delightful promotional word‐smithing and guidance.
• Hannu Heljala, for managing and updating my website and for being a great colleague.
• Marja Hautala, for your ready creativity and for being so delightful to work with.
• The Collaboration Superpowers facilitators, for helping people work better remotely all over the world.
• Marcus Rosenthal, for introducing me to Kendra the Kubi.
• Sococo and their amazing support team, for providing the VTT commu‐nity with a virtual coworking space.
• Maria Quesada, for creating beautiful, content‐rich newsletters, and for being the best, most competent virtual assistant I've ever had.
• Nick Jaworski, for being an amazing podcast producer and making my interviews sound so pro.
• Abdul Muhit Matin, for transcribing my interviews.
• Betsy Goolsby, for reviewing the early manuscript.
• Louise Brace, for reviewing the early manuscript and for being a fun remote colleague.
• Abe Heward and Loyal Basset, for the platonic love and for not aban‐doning me.
• Maarten Koopmans, for being my Dutch welcoming committee, my first interviewee, and a supportive friend.
• Wouter van Aalst, for keeping me healthy, sane, and moving.
• Margit van Harten, for healing my heart.
• All who contributed to the cover design (Alfred, Imran, Rapunza, Marja), and Erin Seaward‐Hiatt, for running with it and making it great. Thanks too to Erin for your patience and professionalism.
• And to Cheech, for the furry companionship and entertainment.

THANK YOU as well to all those who expressed an early interest in this book:

• Robert Aston
• David Baer
• Thomas Bär
• Bianca Barone
• Henrik Berglund
• Keith Bernard
• Alexander Birke
• Anne Birnbaum
• Arina Bondar
• Tuan Dang
• Maxime Bonnet
• Brendan Boyd
• Milenko Bugueno
• Orestes Carracedo
• Andrea Chiou
• Andy Cleff
• Steven Crago
• Alexandre Cuva
• Richard Dallaway
• Kathryn Dekas
• Claire Donald
• Kayt Edwards
• David Eliasen
• Sergey Erlikh
• Helena Evans
• Peter Farkas
• Pierre Fauvel
• Jesse Fewell
• Thomas Francis
• Daniel Fritzler
• Robert Galen
• Stephen Giles
• Andre Gomes
• Ellen Gottesdiener
• Growing Agile
• Yves Hanoulle
• Fredrik Happ
• Jeffry Hesse
• Jerome Hoerig
• Martin Hultman
• Sabine Igler
• Impavid Consulting Inc.
• Denis Jallet
• Michael Kaufman
• Andrew Kidd
• Jason Knight
• Hannes Kropf
• Patrik Liljecrantz
• Thomas Link
• Jason Little
• Jan Lundberg
• Pedro Medas
• Graziela Merlina
• Fabiano Morais
• Cuan Mulligan
• Shaun Newman
• Harry Nieboer
• Yavor Nikolov
• Zornitsa Nikolova
• Oluf Nissen
• Francis Norton
• Sheila Olds
• Adekunle Olonoh
• Pilar Orti
• Hassan Osman
• Barry Overeem
• Tracey Perkins
• Christian Pfister
• Darlene Pike
• Project Leadership Academy Inc.
• Mark Rehberg
• Eva Reiterer
• Chris Ridgewell
• Jennifer Riggins
• Chontelle Sundborn
• Richard Sutherland
• Gregory Tutunjian
• Pascal van Beek
• Jeroen van Hertum
• Bart Van Loon
• Adriana Vela
• John Westworth
• Michel Wicky