Steven Silbiger

I have been super lucky as an author. "The Ten-Day MBA" has been a great success since its first edition. After I earned my MBA, I went about boiling down my binders of notes into a "Sparks Notes" of a top-ten MBA education. I also consulted my friends that attended other top 10 programs to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I have updated it four times with the help of star students recommended by the faculty and my own continuing research. Definitely not academic, I write for the impatient student in mind, but it delivers easy to digest MBA content. Readers report they use it to prepare for entrance interviews, class tests and just the ability to "walk the walk and talk the talk" among the MBAs at work. In the writing process I was told that only 5% of books get published and of them only 5% sell well. Nuts to the pessimists. After 20+ rejections, I found an agent and he found a home at Harper Collins in a week, and the book has been selling to the new crop of MBAs and MBA wanabees every year. I graduated from the Darden School at the University of Virginia with honors and earned my CPA for my pre-MBA accounting career. Darden recommends the book as summer reading for the "poets" of the incoming MBA class to get them up to speed. I always considered being a professor and in this way I may have already had more students than most teachers will have in a lifetime. In its fifth edition, it is read throughout the world, and people have supported it by word-of-mouth references.

I attend the monthly meetings of the Philadelphia Writers Group and I am always working on my next "big" idea.