Mike Finley

Mike Finley is a writer, poet, and videographer from Amherst, Ohio. He is author of a series of business books with psychologist Harvey Robbins, including Why Teams Don't Work (Peterson's, 1995), Why Change Doesn't Work (Peterson's 1996), Transcompetition (McGraw Hill, 2000), and The Accidental Leader (Jossey-Bass, 2003).

Why Teams Don't Work, the first of their collaborations, was named "Best Management Book, The Americas, 1995" by the Booz-Allen & Hamilton/Financial Times Global Business Book Awards. It was published in a second edition, titled The New Why Teams Don't Work, by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=bpiG9bMqwVUC&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=Booz+Allen+%26+Hamilton+Global+Business.+Book+Award+robbins&source=bl&ots=aXGfKwmJym&sig=ogEVQVf63bbetrqLcEom-bTrzcQ&hl=en&ei=UEk9TMHYEIGDnQeouLTdDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Booz%20Allen%20%26%20Hamilton%20Global%20Business.%20Book%20Award%20robbins&f=false

In addition, Finley is author of a business book of his own, Techno-Crazed (Peterson's, 1996).

Finley is a Pushcart Prize author, with work appearing in the 1985 Pushcart Prize Anthology. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/speech/pdf/poetry-awards-list.pdf

In 2009, Supersession Press published an art book of Finley's remembrances of growing up in Amherst, Ohio, titled The Orchard. http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/12/22/author-reminisces-about-childhood-in-amherst-in-illustrated-book-length-poem/

Finley is a video maker, with over 50 short films. http://www.youtube.com/user/mfinley98 And he has published many books of poetry, nonfiction, and humor, from presses such as Litmus, Inc. (Lucky You, 1976); Minnesota Writers Publishing House (Home Trees, 1976); Vanilla Press (The Movie under the Blindfold, 1976); and Salthouse Press (Water Hills, 1985).

Finley's journalism, criticism, and other work have appeared in Rolling Stone, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, Paris Review, Success Magazine and Guideposts.

He was awarded a Wisconsin State Arts Fellowship for fiction in 1985.

His most recent title is Zombie Girl, a novella about the death of his daughter Daniele Finley.

Finley manages Robots & Pirates, a small foundation providing services to young people in trouble in Minneapolis/St. Paul. http://mfinley.com/daniele/robots.htm

Finley lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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