Congratulations to my valued Elance client John Sherriff, whose new book “Lucky and Good: Risk, Decisions & Bets for Investors, Traders & Entrepreneurs” is now available on Amazon.com. The author, a former Enron Europe CEO, shares his experiences about what went right and wrong at Enron, his current business of betting on lawsuits, as well as tales from the poker table and the sporting world to provide very useful and entertaining advice for anyone in business.

His keen insights are presented as a series of propositions. Some of these propositions apply to one kind of business and not another. Others apply to everyone. The common denominator is gambling, and specifically the game of poker. Poker players – the good ones, anyway – quickly learn to calculate the odds. They play by the odds, and they bend the odds in their favor. Do pro poker players lose hands? Of course they do. But they’re in the game for the long haul, not the quick jackpot. In finance and investing, you can have the same attitude, and learn how to maximize good luck and minimize bad luck. This informative and well written book can show you the way.

– Thomas Hauck is a freelance professional book editor who serves both emerging and published authors.