“Every hard, calculating member of the executive team can benefit from this book’s unabashedly soft, humanistic approach to unlocking the potential in organizations—because at the end of the day, enabling the humans in one’s organization is the only way to unlock the romantic quest for better businesses.” — JOHN MAEDA, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and author of The Laws of Simplicity and Redesigning Leadership
“The Business Romantic makes an uplifting case for injecting greater meaning into work. If more people and workplaces followed his rules, our jobs would be more fulfilling.” — ADAM GRANT, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
“The Business Romantic is a wonderfully unusual business book that encourages us in a playful yet reflective way to find beauty and meaning in our work lives and shows us how small, everyday actions can help us build a more humane economy.” — KLAUS SCHWAB, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
“Leberecht has successfully articulated why passion and romance are important, yet often missing in today’s enterprises. The Business Romantic gives us permission to use romance to create companies and products that people truly love.” — DOREEN LORENZO, President, Quirky
“I’m in love with Tim Leberecht’s celebration of Business Romantics. This big-hearted book will inspire you to think bigger, aim higher, and do something meaningful.” — WILLIAM C. TAYLOR, Founding Editor, Fast Company and Author, Practically Radical
“Tim Leberecht offers a glimpse of how work can be meaningful and momentous. Surprise, suffering, drama, and most of all, hope are welcome in Tim’s showcase of some of today’s most exciting and progressive business ventures. Tim shows us how to bring inspiration and romance to our professional selves.” — LIZ MAW CEO, Net Impact
“A playful and probing book about how to re-think and re-enchant business and our engagement with work…arguing that it is the recognition of the human heart of business that increasingly drives success.” — Forbes.com (Top 10 Creative Leadership Book of 2015)
“This books turns the entire idea of “work is toil” on its head and reveals that work can be (and frequently is) is a source of great pleasure in our lives.” — Inc.com (Top 10 Motivational Books of 2015)