The Little Black Book of Economic Development
The Little Black Book of Economic Development, was my first book ever published.  It came about as part of a another book project, "Who Moved My Smokestack?"  That was supposed to be my first commercial book published.  Instead, there were so many edits made and so much of what I thought was a wonderful background to the entire discussion of how and why we go about doing local economic development was cut from that book, that I gathered them up and created what has become the Little Black Book.  So, I dubbed this the book from within a book.  What has totally floored me has been how the Little Black Book of Economic Development became and has to this day still out sold all other books in it's genre.  It became an iconic hit amongst the economic development industry and continues to this day to be the best seller year after year.  Nothing has made me more proud than the outcomes around this little heartfelt book written with the assistance of over fifty of my fellow economic development industry colleagues input.  I hope you will enjoy it as well.  I am now working on a second updated edition for release in the near future.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.