Why you should love your tough developmental editor

Why you should love your tough developmental editor

ByJosh Bernoff

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, editorial director of the publisher Berrett-Koehler, recently wrote that if you love your editor, they’re probably not doing a good job. This contradicts my experience. Great writers love great editors — and hate them at the same time. It’s a strange relationship. An analogy Imagine that you are working with a personal trainer…

Berrett-Koehler editor Jeevan Sivasubramaniam has little interest in big idea books. I think he’s wrong.

Berrett-Koehler editor Jeevan Sivasubramaniam has little interest in big idea books. I think he’s wrong.

ByJosh Bernoff

Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, managing director of editorial at Berrett-Koehler Publishers, recently posted on LinkedIn that he doesn’t see much promise in “big idea” books. I was shocked, because Berrett-Koehler is a significant publisher of great business books, and from where I sit, big ideas are central to the success of many important books. Here’s what Sivasubramaniam…