Unpacking the Reasons for a Successful Book Project

As I write these words, the Racket team is putting the finishing touches on The Catalysts: The Accelerating Forces Forging the New World Financial Order. Over the course of the last 15 months, Amanda Wick has worked closely with us turning her idea into a remarkably timely 440-page book.

Conceptualizing, researching, writing, editing, and designing such a meaty tome offers many opportunities for confusion, rework, and delays. Editor comments may get lost in the shuffle. Key deadlines pass without completed tasks. Last-minute changes cause superfluous stress. In short, things break bad.

With Amanda's book, however, none of these things happened despite the following:

• She has been a digital nomad for the past year.
• I have yet to meet her in person.

Logistical challenges haven't prevented us from staying on track and, as a direct result, comfortably hitting our pub date. The obvious question—and subject of this post—is why?

Why Amanda and the Racket Team Stuck the Landing