Neil Thomas Editor & Author

Barrie Pearson (writes his co-author) is a truly inspirational individual - a natural communicator (and successful seminar presenter) and, after great experience as a senior executive with multinational companies, a successful entrepreneur. He founded a corporate finance boutique - Livingstone Guarantee plc, the first independent corporate finance house in the UK, advising on acquisitions, disposals, management buy-ins and buy-outs, flotations and corporate finance. He sold the company for a substantial sum. He then created a new business called Realization, dedicated to world class mentoring and coaching for successful entrepreneurs and chief executives in wealth creation and personal development. The lessons in this book have been tested throughout his business and private life. Neil Thomas has, after working for various media companies, also built and sold a training business (the seminar, training and publishing business, Hawksmere plc) and then a magazine business. He is currently involved in a variety of business ventures, including Falconbury Ltd and Management Forum Ltd, both seminar and training companies. Barrie Pearson and Neil Thomas have each written several books, but their only other jointly authored work was the international best-selling The Shorter MBA. Neil has also written a wide range of fiction books: www.neilthomasauthor.com. Barrie Pearson has lived his life according to the approaches outlined in this book and Neil Thomas constantly aspires, some times successfully, to do the same, but for him, the road to success is always under construction.