xxiv IntroductIon
before, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. Of course my book
may also have the undesired eect of inducing sleep as opposed to
preventing it.
My career as a consultant started out in the Asia–Pacic region.
Our head oce was located in Bangkok, ailand. Most of our clients
were based around the region in places like Singapore, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with some smaller involvement in the
local ai market. Later we started to get more active in Australia.
ere were a few occasions where I was required to visit our HQ
in Herndon, VA. Our U.S. regional oce served the needs of liter-
ally hundreds of clients across the length and breadth of the United
States.
From that company, I moved to work full-time ...