Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Russ Hall, who read through the manuscript in its many stages and always improved it; Corinne Gregory, who made several useful suggestions that we incorporated into the book; and Tim Moore, who sped this book through the publication process and always encouraged us.

There are many people who contributed their time, talents, and energy to this project, whom we wish to acknowledge .

The group of experts, who contributed their written work:

• Thierry Picq, prof. of human resources management, E.M. LYON, France

• Leslie Shaw, prof. of negotiation, ESCP-EAP Paris, France

• Li Chun, vice president of Otto Capital based in Singapore and Taiwan

We are grateful to Mary Harney, deputy prime minister of Ireland, for her gracious contribution of the foreword and the example she sets for entrepreneurial government leaders everywhere.

Special thanks also to Shirley Horn, Kailash Joshi, Davidi Gilo, Lester Thurow, and Jacques Attali for their continuous support, time, and energy.

We would like to acknowledge Ruth Croke in New York, and give special thanks to Ted Kahn, Satyendra Dhingra, and Steve Ellinghuysen.

Our thanks to our assistants Philip Heimann and Arti Kuthiala, who devoted so much to the project. Also special thanks to Lara Sao Pedro for her diligent work and Patrice Santi for all his efforts.

Thanks to our teams in San Francisco and Paris, to whom we owe much.

• San Francisco: Aurora Hadijat, Ramneeta Kochar, Jocelyn Miller, Kim Sakaue, Maggie Sattosanti, Roxanne Schwartz, Sandy Yao.

• Paris: Birte-Janine Fehse, Celine Nelen, Biljana Maksimovic, Faustino Obeso, Robert Specterman, Nicola Campbell, Solenn Caradec, Ilka Gischewski, Julia Townsend, Pascal Rosenfeld, Florence Bri re, Anouck Chazelas, Roopam Le Berrigaud, Jeremy Benamara.

Daniel Rouach would like to thank ESCP-EAP, and especially Jean-Louis Scaringella, dean and general director of ESCP-EAP, J r me Bon, deputy director of ESCP-EAP, Alain Chevalier, dean of faculty at ESCP-EAP, and Elisabeth Tissier-D bordes, associate dean for research, for authorizing a sabbatical year that enabled him to invest the time and energy for this book.

Special thanks also to Jyoti Gupta, for the valuable contributions to the India chapters of this book.

For their special contributions, Daniel would like to thank his students from the Kellogg Recanati University International Executive MBA program in Tel Aviv; those from the High Tech Management School, Ecole Leven; and those from Technion-Israel Institute of Tecnhology.

Jeff  Saperstein ,
Mill  Valley,  California

Daniel  Rouach ,  
Paris,  France