Collaborator, Coauthor, or Ghostwriter? How to Decide Which You Need

Early in my career, I collaborated with CEO Jim on his business book. After I’d completed the first draft and he reviewed it, we sat together to discuss a few revisions. Primarily, he wavered over whether to include this or that anecdote collected from an interview with a client or staff member.

His wife didn’t like X story; could I remove it? His son really liked Y story, but thought it might be a better illustration in Chapter 6 than Chapter 5. But our strongest conflict? The phrase “win...