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It turns out bbc business editor robert peston, who is close to news international general manager will lewis, was also at. While they concern events and companies you may never have heard of, the case studies are highly entertaining and the lessons learned from them are still applicable today. He also published ten nonfiction books on business and finance, the subject in which he specialized for the new yorker. Unlike a lot of todays business writers, brooks didnt boil his work down into pat howto lessons or.
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