They Don’t Teach Corporate in College is the result of years of personal experience in the workplace, as well as valuable input from the following talented individuals: Jason Alba, Ken Blanchard, Harry Chambers, Diane Danielson, Judith Gerberg, David Gordon, Christine Hassler, Stacy Kravetz, Lindsey Pollak, Linda Price, Karen Schaffer, Mark Schwartz, Rachel Solar-Tuttle, Neil Stroul, Bruce Tulgan, and Abby Wilner.

A special thanks to Julie Jansen, a wise and trusted colleague who generously penned the foreword for this edition.

The hardworking folks who were essential in helping me turn a good idea into a published book include my agents, Alex Glass and Michelle Wolfson; my generous friend Peter Castro; my patient and wise lawyer, Josh Grossman; my editors, Gina Cheselka, Diana Ghazzawi, and Kate Henches; and the rest of the very competent and always responsive staff at Career Press—Ron Fry, Michael Pye, and Laurie Kelly-Pye.

I will be forever grateful to the dozens of corporate twenty-somethings who inspired me with their personal stories, and to the thousands of readers who made the original edition a success and paved the way for this new and improved version of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College. I am also deeply indebted to the HR and training professionals and to the university professors who helped spread the book’s messages to large populations of twenty-somethings.

Finally, I’d like to thank my friends, my colleagues through the years, and my family—especially my father, Robert Levit, for keeping the faith and encouraging me each step of the way.