Jeffrey Fox’s latest book, Rain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business, will ship on February 17, 2009. Rain is a parable that traces the origins of a young man’s later success to lessons he learned as a paperboy.

Rain’s premise is compelling from several points of view. First, a startling number of America’s most successful entrepreneurs were paperboy while growing up. The list includes Warren Buffett, Walt Disney, Jack Welch, Sean “Puffy” Combs, and Jerry Seinfeld.

Second, being a paperboy offers a microcosm of the challenges that paperboys will face later in life dealing with clients, bosses, and employees. Lessons learned as paperboys face help them prepare for the challenges they must later deal with on a larger scale.

Jeffrey Fox’ is the author numerous highly-successful “lesson” and “values” books, including:

• How to Become a Marketing Superstar: Unexpected Rules that Ring the Cash Register
  
• How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know
  
• How to Become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees
  
• The Dollarization Discipline: How Smart Companies Create Customer Value and Profit From It
  
• How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned At the Dininer Table
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients

Amazon.com is currently accepting advance orders for Rain: What a Paperboy Learned about Business in both hardcover and audio formats.