The book titled 'Why Greatness Cannot be Planned' by Joel Lehman and Kenneth Stanley is a self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition.
The book discusses the importance of luck and networking in achieving success, highlighting that hard work and intelligence are not the only factors.
Joel Lehman and Kenneth Stanley are researchers in computational evolution and artificial intelligence respectively, and the book is published by Springer Verlag.
The book challenges the notion that success can be planned and provides insights into the role of unpredictability in achieving greatness.