The house
A press built the way we build companies.
Small. Selective. One standard, applied to every title. A method behind every book and a reader who will use it.
Why it exists
Bill Canady wrote his first books with trade houses. They were well made and well sold. They were also built one at a time, each to its publisher's template, none of them to each other. A reader who finished one had no clear path to the next — and no working paper to take back to the office on Monday.
Eighty20 Publishing was started to fix that for his own shelf: one livery, one method, front matter in agreement across every title, an index in every book, and a Field Guide companion for every one — so that a CEO who picks up any volume can use it, and can find the rest.
The standard turned out to be the product. The imprint now takes a handful of outside authors a year — business leaders with a method and the results to show for it — on the same terms it applies to its own books.
What we publish
Business nonfiction by operators. Leadership, operations, strategy, sales, finance, and the private-equity operating world. A fable, when it carries a method. Nothing we would not put on our own shelf.
Where
Sarasota, Florida. Eighty20 Publishing is a Florida-registered imprint. Books are printed on demand and distributed worldwide through Amazon and IngramSpark.
The house standard, in one paragraph
Every title is 6 × 9 with a black interior set in Palatino. Every book has an index, with the list of figures at the back ahead of it. The front matter carries the whole catalogue, so the shelf stays in agreement as it grows. ISBNs come from the imprint's own block, one family of numbers per title. Each book ships with a letter-size Field Guide holding its instruments. The reader-facing invitation in every book prints a real address, not a form. And the last line of every book is the same: Thinking is required.
The bench
A developmental editor who has edited operators before. A writing collaborator for authors who arrive with a method and not a manuscript. A cover designer who builds covers as a system. An interior designer who sets books to be read. Production, registrations and distribution run in-house, against a checklist that does not waive.
Founder
Bill Canady
Chairman & CEO, Arrowhead Engineered Products · Chairman, OTC Industrial Technologies · Founder & CEO, The 80/20 Institute · U.S. Navy veteran · MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Bill Canady's career spans more than 30 years of leading, scaling, and transforming companies up to and beyond the billion-dollar level. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies, and sits on the boards of several enterprises. Across global industrial markets he has repeatedly turned complex, underperforming businesses into profitable, durable ones — work that has generated over $3 billion in shareholder value.
He built the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS), the framework behind every 80/20 Institute program. His thesis is simple: complexity kills performance; clarity drives profit.
Canady is the author of several bestselling business books, including The 80/20 CEO and The Rule of Three. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and served in the United States Navy.