It's Who You Know, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible without my own network of Promoters, Pit Crew, Teachers and Butt-kickers — the many friends, family, colleagues and clients who collaborated on developing my thinking, allowed me to question and delve into their networking behaviour and who ultimately encouraged me to keep going. A sincere thank you to each of you, I couldn't have written this book without you all.

A huge thank you to the extraordinary team and talent around me who helped extract this book from my head to paper. Thank you to my incredible editor, Kelly Irving. Your passion for this project and your compassion and smarts throughout those long days, late nights and many weekends — quite simply wow — I will be forever grateful. To the extraordinary team at Presentation Studio, and in particular Emma Bannister and Sarah Marriot, thank you for all your design genius and for turning my crappy sketches into something far superior. And of course to the team at Wiley for your dedication and support — Lucy Raymond, Chris Shorten, Jem Bates, Ingrid Bond and Theo Vassili — thank you.

To my incredible team who have supported me from the sidelines — Lisa Dunne thank you for keeping on top of everything, for looking after all our fabulous clients and always exploring ways to go one step beyond — it doesn't go unnoticed. To Lee Ussher, Melissa Browne and Scott Eathorne thank you for everything, for thinking big with me, for listening to my endless conversations, for ...