Tom Gorman is a business book author and collaborator. He holds an MBA from NYU and is former director of editorial services at DRI/McGraw-Hill, where he edited the monthly "Forecast of the US Economy," Hes the author or editor of hundreds of articles, analyses, white papers, and speeches and the author of the DRI chief economists statement before the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, along with "The Complete Idiots Guide to MBA Basics, Second Edition," and "The Complete Idiots Guide to Economics,"