Autor: Charles Decker

Charles Decker, one of the most authoritative voices in publishing, is an independent consultant and a former senior executive at Amazon.com. He is also the former director of Doubleday’s Executive Program book club, at the time the largest business book club in the world. He is the co-author with Leslie Yerkes of Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times and Bad and the author of Lessons from the Hive: The Buzz on Surviving and Thriving in an Ever-Changing Workplace. He divides his time between New York City and Dallas/Fort Worth. Gene Ference is a leadership strategist and internationally known conference speaker. He is president and founder of Ference Leadership and Strategy and Center for Survey Research, and was formerly a faculty lecturer at Cornell University’s world-renowned School of Hotel Administration; director of worldwide training and development and director of the Career Development Institute for Hilton International Hotels; and director of Global Management Development for Inter-Continental Hotels. He lives in Weston, Connecticut.