Bob Andelman
Bob Andelman is the author of five books, most recently co-authoring the New York Times, Business Week, Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today national best seller Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great (Times Books/Random House), with Albert J. Dunlap, chairman and CEO of Sunbeam. The book was published in September 1996 and excerpted in:
USA Today
The Australian
Florida Trend
Bookpage
Soundview Executive Summaries
Mean Business also received reviews and/or was featured in prominent stories in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Time,
Fortune ("Memo to deadwood everywhere--beware"), Worth ("This book makes you feel like swearing a whole bunch -- proudly"),
Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle ("Workers and shareholders alike will applaud Dunlap's approach to high-salaried CEOs whose companies are crumbling"), Chicago Tribune ("Hate him or love him, this is a fascinating book"), The Wharton Journal,
Publishers Weekly ("Much of Dunlap's argument makes sense"), Joel Orr's World of Technology ("This book states more clearly than any I have read the proper relationship between the management of a company and its shareholders."), Smart Business Supersite Hot Tip of the Day, on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, "Dateline NBC," "Nightline" and "CBS Reports."
More recently, Mean Business was also a finalist in the 1997 Financial Times of London Global Business Book Awards. And Soundview Executive Business Summaries named it one of the "best business books of 1996."
In the US Airways inflight magazine, Attache (July 1997), Paul Argenti listed the top 10 "Business Books for All Time," describing Mean Business as the "contemporary version" of Machiavelli's The Prince.
You can order Mean Business in hardcover by clicking here.
A Random House Audiobook of Mean Business is available by clicking here
The paperback edition of Mean Business -- featuring an all-new behind-the-scenes chapter about Mr. Dunlap's stunning rejuvenation of Sunbeam -- was published in October 1997 by Simon & Schuster.
Andelman's latest book is The Profit Zone: Lessons of Strategic Genius from the People Who Created the World's Most Valued Companies (Times Books/Random House), on which he collaborated with Adrian Slywotzky and David Morrison, partners in Boston-based Corporate Decisions, Inc. It will be published in January 1998.
Andelman's other books include:
Stadium For Rent: Tampa Bay's Quest for Major League Baseball (McFarland and Co., P.O. Box
611, Jefferson, NC 28640, 1-800-253-2187; pub. June 1993)
Why Men Watch Football (Acadian House; PO Box 52247, Lafayette, LA 70505, 1-800-850-8851; pub. November 1993)
Bankers as Brokers: The Complete Guide to Selling Mutual Funds, Annuities and Other Fee-Based Investment Products (McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group, 1333 Burr Ridge Parkway, Burr Ridge, IL 60521; 1-800-2-MCGRAW, ext. 2771; pub. May 1994), which he co-wrote.
Andelman also writes "Mr. Media," distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, appears in print and/or online in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Gainesville Sun, Islamorada Free Press, Focus, Arizona Republic, Sacramento Bee and City Pages. (The Dallas Morning News owns the rights to Mr. Media but we haven't been able to convince them to start publishing it. Feel free to call the features editor yourself and put in a good word!) The irrevent weekly column grew out of "Headliners," a weekly column he wrote
in the mid-1980s for the St. Petersburg Times.
A five-time Florida Magazine Association award winner for investigative
reporting, Andelman appears in the first edition of Who's Who in the Media and Communications.
During the past decade, Andelman spent five years as a Central Florida contributor to both Business
Week and Newsweek. His work has appeared in magazines such as
Money, Redbook, Florida Retail Centers, Gallery, Jacksonville Magazine, Writer's Digest,
Sci-Fi Universe, Editor & Publisher, Lifestyles, Shopping Centers Today, Shopping Center World, Commercial Real Estate South, and National Real Estate Investor and
newspapers including Warfield's Tampa Bay Review, Warfield's Business & Technology,
the Orlando Sentinel, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune and
Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Andelman was also editor
and associate publisher of Tampa Bay Weekly (1988) and published his own magazine, Jump, in 1987.
Andelman, whose hometown is North Brunswick, N.J., has lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1982. He has a bachelor's degree in film studies (with a minor in
American literature) from the University of Florida. He and his wife, Mimi, (a features editor and designer at the St. Petersburg Times) have been married since 1988, have a daughter and three dogs, Chief, Sandy and Nipper.
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