The first book to document this change,Mavericks at Workis business “edutainment” for a smart, ambitious readership, profiling some of the most excitingand often eccentricCEOs in the United States, while detailing their remarkable strategies for success.

Whos going to write the next chapter in the saga of American business? Whos going to chronicle the best way to compete, the new way to win? Thats the mission of Mavericks at Work, a book that profiles a network of rebels who are creating a new business model that makes use of fresh principles and captures what it means to be a state-of-the-art organization. Including such pioneering companies as ING Direct, Southwest Airlines, Pixar, HBO, Anthropologie, Craigslist, Netflix, and Commerce Bank, this book is nothing short of a lively new intellectual agenda for business.