A Story surrounding Clarence Saunders, founder of Piggly Wiggly stores, tried to corner short sellers but failed since exchange halted trading and extended call for stock by five days.

An insight into the challenges of corporate communication.

How Ira Haupt & Co are likely going to go bankrupt because of forged collateral by one of its clients.

Story of how Xerox invented photocopying.

An Insider Trading case of Texas Gulf discovering an ore mine in Canada.

The story of the failure of the FORD Edsel.

A Story covering the mini stock market crash of.

However despite this, John Brooks does describe all 12 ‘Adventures’ in quite some detail. It’s possible that this was done in order sidestep a number of legality issues, or perhaps that’s just the kind of style they were going for assuming the reader is intelligent enough to come to the correct conclusion on their own. That being said, the author often leaves it for the reader to read between the lines and draw their own conclusions, as no definitive conclusions are ever really drawn in some cases. This adds considerable richness and depth to each of the ‘adventures’ covered in this book.

The writer’s style is more akin to that of a Sherlock Holmes novel, or an old style of journalism rather than a cold black and white approach where they just hit you with hard facts until coming to a conclusion. This gives you a real insight into their personality and how the world was when these stories took place. The Author tends to take a human interest angle and describes a number of key people. I have heard, as I believe everyone else has, that ‘Business Adventures’ was a favorite book of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, and although this book is outdated, I was interested to see what it has to offer.īusiness Adventures contains a number of somewhat humorous and entertaining dialogues, the emphasis on these make it an overall entertaining read. I was interested in looking into this one. Although not to the same extent as the stories covered in these pages. Having just left the ‘corporate’ world myself. Hello my fellow wordsmiths and page turners,

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