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Tuesday/10/16 09:22 AM
In 1994, with many thanks to the
Atlanta Business Chronicle,
I began writing a a business book review column called
Executive Bookshelf.
Bookshelf was everything I hoped it would be – a paid outlet for my writing, a successful syndication to more than 20 business weeklies and monthlies across the country, and an opportunity to discover new ideas from some amazing authors and pass them along to what I imagined was a thinking business audience.
Readers could have guessed from the beginning what my general direction was going to be, since my first column was a review of Meg Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science, a discussion of how the new physics and quantum theory might be applied to general business strategy.
Over the next ten years, I published more than 250 business book reviews, plus special reports and yearend top tens. Friends in the publishing business had warned me that burnout would be an issue, and indeed it was. By the end of my tenth year, every new book that came across my desk looked like ten others that I had seen or read or reviewed. I knew it was time to stop.
Bookshelf was everything I hoped it would be – a paid outlet for my writing, a successful syndication to more than 20 business weeklies and monthlies across the country, and an opportunity to discover new ideas from some amazing authors and pass them along to what I imagined was a thinking business audience.
Readers could have guessed from the beginning what my general direction was going to be, since my first column was a review of Meg Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science, a discussion of how the new physics and quantum theory might be applied to general business strategy.
Over the next ten years, I published more than 250 business book reviews, plus special reports and yearend top tens. Friends in the publishing business had warned me that burnout would be an issue, and indeed it was. By the end of my tenth year, every new book that came across my desk looked like ten others that I had seen or read or reviewed. I knew it was time to stop.