Charles Decker, one of the most authoritative voices in publishing, is an independent consultant and a former senior executive at Amazon.com. He is also the former director of Doubleday’s Executive Program book club, at the time the largest business book club in the world. He is the co-author with Leslie Yerkes of Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times and Bad and the author of Lessons from the Hive: The Buzz on Surviving and Thriving in an Ever-Changing Workplace. He divides his time between New York City and Dallas/Fort Worth.