I served as lead author of Business Model You, which was co-created by a terrific bunch of 328 contributors from 41 countries. Business Model You applies business model thinking to personal career development, teaching readers to create and execute personal business models using the Business Model Canvas. Download a free 79 page sample or visit our global community of personal business model enthusiasts.

In 2010, I enjoyed copyediting a book of scholarly essays about applying corporate social responsibility principles to management practices. The book, Responsible Management Practices for the 21st Century, was released by Pearson in spring 2011.

I had the pleasure of serving as editor and contributing co-author of Business Model Generation, which has become an international bestseller with more than 200,000 copies shipped and availability in 22 languages. Inc. Magazine named Business Model Generation one of its 2010 “Best Books for Business Owners.”

My book on leadership, The Swordless Samurai, is based on Kitami Masao's Toyotomi Hideyoshi no Keiei Juku, selectively translated from the Japanese with new material added. St. Martin’s Press released hardcover and paperback editions in 2007 and 2008, and a local language version released by Red Line Publishing became a bestseller in Indonesia in 2009.

Hideyoshi’s story was so intriguing, and I had generated so much good material from the Swordless Samurai research, that for fun (and to learn more about the book business) I decided to write and publish a book of parables centered around Hideyoshi’s extraordinary life in late sixteenth century Japan. This took the form of The Prosperous Peasant: Five Secrets of Fortune & Fulfillment from the Samurai’s Temple School, co-authored by novelist Mark Cunningham. An Indonesian language version was released in 2011.

My first book, Saying Yes To Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market, offers analyses of Japan’s real estate, finance, health care, and information technology industries, coupled with up-close profiles of entrepreneurs from around the world who successfully developed new business models to answer surprisingly underserved customer needs. Co-authored by Carl Kay and released in English in 2005, Saying Yes was published in Japanese by Nikkei in 2006.