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I especially enjoy working on books, from improving the flow of words to improving the flow of ideas, from eliminating verbiage that gets in the way to adding just the right images so your ideas sing.

Books I have worked on include:

  • Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, by Paul R. Lawrence
  • Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences, by Ofer Sharone
  • Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians’ Policies and Performance, by Gabriel S. Lenz
  • The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, by Noam Wasserman
  • Getting to Know You: A Physician Explains How Acupuncture Helps You Be the Best You, by Joseph M. Helms, M.D.
  • The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton
  • The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition, by Steven J. Spear
  • Motherload: Making It All Better in Insecure Times, by Ana Villalobos
  • Put It on Paper! Every Person’s Guide to the Printing Industry, by Margie Dana
  • Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond, by Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini
  • Starting a Technology Company, edited by Marina Weston-Smith and Peter Luebcke
  • The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance, by David Gebler
     
Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe, edited by Martin K. Dimitrov. Includes a chapter copy-edited by John Elder. Strategy for the Future of Health, edited by Renata G. Bushko. Includes a chapter copy-edited by John Elder. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Fall 2013. 13 articles in special issue copy-edited by John Elder.
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I have worked on chapters in:

  • Defense Acquisition Reform: Where Do We Go from Here? published by the Senate Armed Services Committee
  • Emergent Models of Global Leadership, edited by Nancy S. Huber and Mark C. Walker
  • Enterprise Risk Management: Today’s Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow’s Executives, edited by John Fraser and Betty J. Simkins
  • Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber
  • Group Communication: Cases for Analysis, Appreciation and Application, edited by Laura Black
  • Rethinking Leadership and “Whole of Government” National Security Reform: Problems, Progress, and Prospects, edited by Joseph R. Cerami and Jeffrey A. Engel
  • Strategy for the Future of Health, edited by Renata G. Bushko
  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe, edited by Martin K. Dimitrov
     
     
Group Communication: Cases for Analysis, Appreciation and Application, edited by Laura Black. Includes a chapter copy-edited by John Elder. Enterprise Risk Management: Today’s Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow’s Executives, edited by John Fraser and Betty J. Simkins. Includes a chapter copy-edited by John Elder. Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber. Includes a chapter copy-edited by John Elder.

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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton. Copy-edited by John Elder. The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition, by Steven J. Spear. Copy-edited by John Elder.
 Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond, by Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini. Copy-edited by John Elder.

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“John is a very thoughtful, careful lay reader, so he flags things that are not well said, not properly sequenced, etc. And he is a good writer, so he is quite useful in making sure that what is hard to say comes out much more cleanly.”
Steven J. Spear, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

     
The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance, by David Gebler. Copy-edited by John Elder. Follow the Leader? How Voters Respond to Politicians’ Policies and Performance, by Gabriel S. Lenz. Copy-edited by John Elder. Getting to Know You: A Physician Explains How Acupuncture Helps You Be the Best You, by Joseph M. Helms, M.D. Copy-edited by John Elder.
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“John was able to take my own draft conveying complex ideas and suggest ways to convey those ideas far more simply. His work not only heightened the impact of my words on my readers, but over time, working with him also improved my own written communication.”
Noam Wasserman, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
 
 
Put It on Paper! Every Person’s Guide to the Printing Industry, by Margie Gallo Dana. Copy-edited by John Elder. The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, by Noam Wasserman. Copy-edited by John Elder. Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences, by Ofer Sharone. Copy-edited by John Elder.
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“Your changes, comments, and questions make the chapter so much more readable and understandable.”
Gabriel S. Lenz, Associate Professor, University of California–Berkeley
 
 
Starting a Technology Company, edited by Marina Weston-Smith and Peter Luebcke. Guide for entrepreneurial faculty and students at the University of Cambridge, UK. Copy-edited by John Elder. Motherload: Making It All Better in Insecure Times, by Ana Villalobos. Copy-edited by John Elder. Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, by Paul R. Lawrence. Copy-edited by John Elder.
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“Thanks, John, for being a real partner in this effort.”
David Gebler, President, Skout Group.
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