Publishing Groups

Business Plus

Business Plus is the highly-respected business book imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Since being founded in 2000, Business Plus has had close to 50 major books land on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, or Business Week bestseller lists. And since the world of business is global, Business Plus is well-established around the world with its sister imprints in Europe and Asia.

A sampling of some of the more notable Business Plus authors include Hank Paulson, the former US Treasury Secretary, Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of General Electric, Coach Mike Krzyzewski, the Hall of Fame basketball coach from Duke University, Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos; Captain D. Michael Abrashoff of the US Navy, Dr. Robert Sutton, Dr. Lois Frankel, Dr. Stephen Leeb, Harry Beckwith, Don Phillips, Jeff Benedict, Mitch Joel, Jeff Hayzlett, and many more.

For more information, go to http://bizplusbooks.com.

Rick Wolff serves as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Business Plus. Wolff created and launched the imprint in 2000 when it was originally known as Warner Business Books.

As an author himself, Wolff has written numerous books on a variety of subjects, and has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Magazine, GQ, Psychology Today, USA TODAY, and many others.  He graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, and also from Long Island University with high honors.

Wolff also acquires major non-fiction that is not business-oriented for the general Grand Central list, where he is a Vice President and Executive Editor.

Business Plus
  • Change Anything
  • Change Anything
  • By Kerry Patterson ,

  • An extraordinary work, based upon the latest scientific research, that provides remarkable advice on how individuals can truly modify and change their professional and personal lives for the better.

  • You, Inc.
  • You, Inc.
  • By Harry Beckwith ,

  • Bestselling marketing expert Harry Beckwith shows readers how to package their most important product: themselves.

  • 18 Minutes
  • 18 Minutes
  • By Peter Bregman ,

  • 18 MINUTES shatters the myth of trying to get it all done, and rather shows you a clear and simple approach to get the right things done, everyday, in just 18 minutes.

  • Red Alert
  • Red Alert
  • By Stephen Leeb ,

  • A definitive, prescriptive and very much "in-your-face" approach on how business managers (including small business owners) can truly evaluate what's not working well in their businesses and how they can turn their companies around, now in trade paperback.

  • Buy High, Sell Higher
  • Buy High, Sell Higher
  • By Joe Terranova ,

  • Terranova, a series regular on CNBC's Fast Money and the Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, dispenses counter-intuitive advice that will help the average investor to think and to trade like the pros.

  • Delivering Happiness
  • Delivering Happiness
  • By Tony Hsieh ,

  • The hip, iconoclastic CEO of Zappos shows how a different kind of corporate culture can make a huge difference in achieving remarkable results -- by actually creating a company culture that values happiness --and then delivers on it.

  • Joe Terranova
  • Joe Terranova
  • Joe Terranova is a series regular on CNBC's Fast Money and the Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, a $25 billion Hartford-based asset management firm. Prior to joining Virtus, he spent 18 years at MBF Clearing Corp., where he was the director of trading and managed more than 300 traders.

  • Barry Barnes PhD
  • Barry Barnes PhD
  • Barry Barnes is a professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

Manuscript Submissions

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, the editorial department of Business Plus is unable to accept unsolicited material. While we cannot recommend an agent, agent lists can be found in such resources as the Literary Market Place, available in most public libraries or on literarymarketplace.com.

 

Contact Information

For inquiries regarding Grand Central Publishing and all of its imprints, please email grandcentralpublishing@hbgusa.com

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