"Another star name in the ghostwriting pack is the writer and researcher, Art Kleiner. In his own right, Kleiner is author of the successful, The Age of Heretics. As a ghost, his credits are many and varied - he worked as 'a consulting editor' on The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge, The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz, Control your Destiny by Noel Tichy, The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss, The Living Company by Arie de Geus and other less prominent volumes.'Many people don't know how to convert their speaking insights to the printed page,' says Kleiner."

" 'Most ghosts are acknowledged in the acknowlegements as consulting editors or some such. You can usually find them,' says Art Kleiner. 'Often ghosts take part in writing the acknowledgements about themselves, which is unfortunate because they often short change themselves. It's part of the ghosting personality to short change oneself since one has to be a bit self-effacing to take on the job in the first place.' "

2. A sidebar to Stuart Crainer's article about ghost-writing in Across the Board Magazine. (I started that second essay, "Peter Senge wrote his own book.") If you count the essays in the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series, then I have ghost-written or contributing-edited for more than 150 people. The people whose text I have worked with include Peter Block, Juanita Brown, former Shell Oil CEO Phil Carroll, Art Costa, Robert Fritz, Howard Gardner, Arie de Geus Royal Dutch/Shell managing director Cor Herkströter, John Holdren, 1999 "Superintendent of the Year" N. Gerry House, Edward Joyner, Mitch Kapor, Nell Minow, Kenichi Ohmae, Edgar Schein, Peter Schwartz, Peter Senge, Jack Stack, Noel Tichy and many others. I think there is an integrity to the work, and that integrity is often abused. I would like to keep doing this kind of work, in part, because there is no easier way to learn about a complex issue. For that reason, I'm actively interested in ghost-writing or consulting-editing assignments that are well-paid, high-profile, and that offer an opportunity to learn about a new field. Some of the books I help produce are "ghosted" in the sense that contributors are interviewed, I (or another correspondent) write a first draft based on the interview, and then the contributors painstakingly go over their material. Other books are produced by the authors with myself in more of a coaching role. In all cases, the contributors of these pieces retain authorship; they are, in fact, the authors, in my opinion. I do not work on projects unless I believe that the author, who is hiring me, has something significant and worthwhile to say. The links below are some examples of my consulting editing work.