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Acknowledgments

First I’d like to thank Pat Briden, my business manager and herder of
the many cats that can be me. Pat’s role in the development and writ-
ing of this book was absolutely invaluable. She provided the first wave
of editorial comment at almost every stage, performed research, chased
down the permissions, created the index, and did most of the many
technical illustrations.
I’d also like to thank all the people and companies whose stories
and creative output helped me articulate and illustrate so many of the
points that needed to be made in this book.
Let me also thank my agent Michael Cohn, Andrew Jaffe at
Adweek Books, and executive editor Airié Dekidjiev at John Wiley &
Sons for seeing the value of this book long before it took final form.
Plus all the other people at John Wiley & Sons and North Market
Street Graphics who contributed to bringing this book to life, espe-
cially Chris Furry.
Dan Madole gets my sincere thanks for his design of this book’s
dust jacket, as do my friends at Magical Monkey for their early cover
design work. Thanks also to Mary Sward for providing editorial guid-
ance in my very early writings that provided the foundation for some
of this book.
Thanks, too, to all the companies and professional organizations
who have hired Before & After, Inc.™ over the years and all the indi-
viduals who participated in the many workshops and brainstorming
sessions I’ve conducted, plus all the individuals who have attended my
creative camps. All of these people and organizations have helped me
better understand creativity as they have allowed me to help them
explore this wonderful stuff and put it to work for them.