Michael Dobson

Michael S. Dobson (born September 9, 1952, in Charlotte, North Carolina ) is an American author in the fields of business (particularly office politics and project management), alternate history novels (relating to World War II) and role-playing game adventures (Dungeons & Dragons, Indiana Jones, and Buck Rogers XXVC).

Early life Dobson's family moved from North Carolina to Germany when he was a child; his father had spent the latter part of World War II in a POW camp and had grown adjusted to German hospitality. The Dobson family returned to the United States five years later in 1960. Dobson later lived in Decatur, Alabama, but he felt that he did not fit in well in the South. "I still can't play a Civil War game to this day." including several co-authored with his wife, Deborah Singer Dobson, who works in human resources. Coping with Supervisory Nightmares (1997) with Deborah Singer Dobson, Kelly Scanlon, and Rod Hankins Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-advancing Relationship with Your Boss (2000) with Deborah Singer Dobson Project Management for the Technical Professional (2001) Enlightened Office Politics (2001) with Deborah Singer Dobson The Triple Constraints in Project Management (2004) Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals (2008) with Susan B. Wilson

Alternate history Fox on the Rhine (2000) with Douglas Niles Fox at the Front (2003) with Douglas Niles MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan (2007) with Douglas Niles