Rainer Grunert is one of Germany's new lateral thinker in nonfiction. Born in 1958, he began his professional life as a typesetter and later studied business economics and psy-chology. After several additional studies, travels abroad, and an internet start-up company, he joined an international consultancy firm. He specialized there in strategic financial restructuring and information technology. In 2000, he became a freelancer and worked for six years as a temporary manager and a consultant for the management of large corpora-tions. Since 2007, Rainer Grunert has worked as an author and a coa...