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Book SynopsisSir Nigel Rudd is one of the leading businessmen of his generation. Over the past four decades, he has headed a host of major British companies across a range of different industries, piling up experience that is second to none. From his modest upbringing in Derby to the commanding heights of UK plc, Rudd recounts his journey with all the unusual forthrightness and penetrating insight that are his hallmarks. He takes the reader inside the boardrooms as personal and corporate destinies are being settled, against the background of momentous events from the Thatcher Revolution of the 1980s to the financial and Covid crises of this century. Rudd has seen it all and done most of it. This is his story: riveting, panoramic and definitive.
Trade Review'I was CEO of three large public companies, so I've had many chairmen over the years. Out of all those chairmen, Nigel Rudd was by far the best. He was incomparable. He's very courageous, ready to take tough and even risky decisions; he has phenomenal business nous; he's always there when you need him and never there when you don't' - Paolo Scaroni, chairman of AC Milan and formerly chief executive of Enel and Pilkington
