Mike Finley is a writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, poet

Poet

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, and videographer

Videographer

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 from Amherst, Ohio

Amherst, Ohio

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,797 people, 4,459 households, and 3,388 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,646.1 people per square mile . There were 4,603 housing units at an average density of 642.3 per square mile...

. He is author of a series of business books with psychologist Harvey Robbins, including Why Teams Don't Work (Peterson's, 1995), Why Change Doesn't Work (Peterson's 1996), Transcompetition (McGraw Hill, 2000), and The Accidental Leader (Jossey-Bass, 2003).

Why Teams Don't Work, the first of their collaborations, was named "Best Management Book, The Americas, 1995" by the Booz-Allen & Hamilton/Financial Times

Financial Times

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 Global Business Book Awards. It was published in a second edition, titled The New Why Teams Don't Work, by Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=bpiG9bMqwVUC&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=Booz+Allen+%26+Hamilton+Global+Business.+Book+Award+robbins&source=bl&ots=aXGfKwmJym&sig=ogEVQVf63bbetrqLcEom-bTrzcQ&hl=en&ei=UEk9TMHYEIGDnQeouLTdDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Booz%20Allen%20%26%20Hamilton%20Global%20Business.%20Book%20Award%20robbins&f=false

In addition, Finley is author of a business book of his own, Techno-Crazed (Peterson's

Peterson's

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, 1996).

Finley is a Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

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 author, with work appearing in the 1985 Pushcart Prize Anthology. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/speech/pdf/poetry-awards-list.pdf

In 2009, Supersession Press published an art book of Finley's remembrances of growing up in Amherst, Ohio, titled The Orchard. http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/12/22/author-reminisces-about-childhood-in-amherst-in-illustrated-book-length-poem/

Finley is a video maker, with over 50 short films. http://www.youtube.com/user/mfinley98
And he has published many books of poetry, nonfiction, and humor, from presses such as Litmus, Inc. (Lucky You, 1976); Minnesota Writers Publishing House (Home Trees, 1976); Vanilla Press (The Movie under the Blindfold, 1976);
and Salthouse Press (Water Hills, 1985).

Finley's journalism, criticism, and other work have appeared in Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, St. Paul Pioneer Press

St. Paul Pioneer Press

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, Minnesota Monthly, Paris Review

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, Success Magazine and Guideposts

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He was awarded a Wisconsin State Arts Fellowship for fiction in 1985.

His most recent title is Zombie Girl, a novella

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 about the death of his daughter Daniele Finley.

Finley manages Robots & Pirates, a small foundation providing services to young people in trouble in Minneapolis/St. Paul. http://mfinley.com/daniele/robots.htm

Finley lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.