ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all I would like to acknowledge John Grinder and
Richard Bandler, the co-developers of NLP, Robert Dilts,
who has taken it forward in so many new and interesting di-
rections over the years, and the many others involved in
developing NLP.
My thanks to Carole Tonkinson and Elizabeth Hutchins at
Thorsons.
Complexity theories were first developed mainly by Stuart
Kauffman, Brian Arthur, John Holland and Chris Langton at
the Santa Fe Institute. I believe their brilliant insights into
the nature of complex systems will be increasingly recog-
nized and applied to organizational leadership and
self-development. I have also been fortunate to ‘listen’ to
many fascinating conversations about systemic thinking and
complexity on the Internet, and would particularly like to
thank Uri Merry, Ben Kutz, Mark White and Michael Lissack
for provoking my thinking in many interesting directions.
The mosaic I have made from it is, however, mine.
Finally, I thank my friends throughout the world for their
help and encouragement: Alexandre de Faria, Brian van der
Horst, Alix Louise von Uhde, Gill Norman-Bruce, Joey Wal-
ters, Drake Zimmerman, Bent Hansen, Erum Imran,
Colonel Rashid Iqbal Khan, Gulsun Zeytinoglu, Vitor
Caruso, Tim Murphey, Leo Anghart, Deborah Epelman,
Gajic Zorica, Roman Braun and Oscar Caceres.
Credits
I have done my best to track down and credit the sources of the
material in this book. Please let me know by mail if I have in-
advertently omitted an important source or if you feel someone
is not properly acknowledged. I will correct future printings.