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We offer our sincere thanks to our colleagues from who provided insight and expertise that was instrumental in researching, designing, and writing The Art of Opportunity.

We are deeply grateful to the brilliant design and production work of Bryan Zentz, who went over and above the call of duty to create a book that is an enticing work of art.

Kudos to our stalwart marketing team:

Tori Dunlap, Lucy Kelly, Hannah Vogel, and Heidi Hinshaw for assistance with marketing.

For providing design, illustration, and production talent, we applaud:

Graham Barey, Hermen Lutje Berenbroek, Elisa Gipson, Guonan, Susanne LeBlanc, and Nathan Stang.

A special thanks to our XPLANE colleagues, both past and present:

As a source of inspiration, support, encouragement, and professional camaraderie.

For generous use of office space: Jon McDonald at The Good and David Howitt of The Meriwether Group.

We are also thankful for the encouragement, support, and talent of:

John Willig of Literary Services, Inc.; Lia Ottaviano, Peter Knox, Lauren Freestone, and Matt Holt of John Wiley & Sons; Joan Bosisio, Jen Heady, and Jacqueline Bole of Stern Strategy Group for strategy and public relations support; Max Thelen for legal counsel, advice, and general wisdom; Guanon for website design; Ann Smith, Lisa Lavora-De Beule, and Natalie Hanson of A.wordsmith.

For sharing their pearls of wisdom with us, we are immensely grateful to:

Bob Kelly, Microsoft; Anne Bartlett-Bragg, Ripple Effect Group; Mark Baker, Oracle; Sunni Brown, SB Inc; Tom Williams, Salesforce; Jim Kreller, Vanco Payment Solutions; Geoffrey Moore, Chasm Institute; Loius Patler, The B.I.T. Group; Nancy Duarte, Duarte Design; Dave Gray, XPLANE; Robert L. Lorber, PhD, Lorber Kamai Consulting Group; David Allen, David Allen Company; Jay Samit, Robert I. Sutton, and Mark Polson, Estée Lauder Companies; Paul Snyder, IHG; Robert McKinnon; Michael Graham; James Macanufo; Chip Joyce, Allied Talent; Jim Wallace, HP; Jeff Wright, Autodesk; Ron Diorio, The Economist; Soon Yu, VF Corporation; Omar Baig, OECD; Richard Black, Deutsche Bank; Bryson Koehler, Weather.com; Stuart Curley, Arriva; Gary Fisher, UC Davis; Patrick van der Pijl, Busines Models Inc.; Mark Barden, eatbigfish; Glenn A. Oclassen, Jr., Replicon; Penny Fondy, Wits' End Productions; Michael Graber, Southern Growth Studio; Dion Hinchcliffe, 7Summits; Jonas Koffler and David Roberts, The Difference; and our research participants, especially Dr. Daniel Liedtke and Klinik Hirslanden.

And, finally, many thanks to our community of Art of Opportunists for volunteering to review early content and provide their wisdom, advice, and support:

Apostolos Apostolides, Patrick Attallah, Omar Baig, Anne Bartlett-Bragg, Tanner Bechtel, Richard Black, Jacqueline Bole, Sunni Brown, Gary Burt, Mike Colarossi, Mercedes Concepcion-Gray, Mark Copsey, John Cousineau, Lars Crama, Stuart Curley, Hilary Curry, Kord Davis, Silvester de Keijzer, Peter de Wit, Matthew Dennison, Alexander Doujak, Crystal Fernando, Claire Francois Michael Graber, Dave Gray, Alan Greenberg, Kamal Hassan, Jen Heady, Kira Higgs, Heidi Hinshaw, Bob Kelly, Lori Kenney, Timur Khojayev, George Kurtyka, David Lary, C Todd Lombardo, Liz Lufkin, Smita Master, Rob McKinnon, Horacio Miranda, Karl Mundorff, Martina Naerr-Fuchs, Eva Nell, Kate Niederhoffer, Niall O'Doherty, Andres Pacheco, Vincenzo Pallotta, Catherine Palmer, Louis Patler, Gunter Pfau, Max Rehkopf, Stuart Rolinson, Fernando Saenz-Marrero, Brendan Sherry, Paul Snyder, Jodi Sweetman, Kevin Tate, The Doujak Team, K. C. Teis, Max Thelen, Rafal Tomczyk, Mike Turner, Heinz Waelchli, Jim Wallace, Margaret Ward, Terry Ward, Scott Wilkinson, and Thomas Williams.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

– YODA Jedi Master