Visionary Leaders for Information

Acknowledgements

I would like first and foremost to acknowledge the debt I owe to my various contributors. Without their contributions, most willingly provided, this work would certainly be much the poorer. To Giuseppe Giovenco who, as the then Director of the Centre for Information Studies, was responsible for the conception of this work, I owe so much. His encouragement, occasional discomfiture and his general willingness to debate issues and throw out wild ideas have contributed so much to my own personal development and to the development of this book. Also among the contributors I am especially indebted to Professor Derek Law for his preparedness to meet and discuss the work in its final stages. Although our meeting was disrupted by a ...