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Book SynopsisThe story of a high-stakes career
Claude Littner is best known as the mercilessly tough interviewer on the BBC''s award-winning The Apprentice. His abrupt style and zero-tolerance policy on nonsense have become the highlights of every series. But what is he like in real business?
SINGLE-MINDED reveals the story of Claude''s varied career and the turbulent years that shaped him. From being told at school he would never amount to anything to his current status as a boardroom heavyweight both on-screen and off it, success has never come easy. Claude''s complex, fascinating work has taken him into many different industries and countries, encompassing:
- retail start-ups
- knife-edge company rescue missions
- the bruising rough-and-tumble of Premier League football
- facing down French trade unions
- taking on Texan oil barons in multi-million-dollar deals
- and, in the private sphere, conquering life-threatening illness
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Trade Review
It is intriguing to discover the man behind the inscrutable expression on the cover of his autobiography . . . Littner proves engaging, straight-talking and motivational company. -- Emma Newlands * Scotsman *
Claude Littner's Single-Minded is one of the best [autobiographies] I've read in a long time -- Baroness Karren Brady CBE
