Single-Minded: My Life in Business

The 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 that 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.

Told with characteristic candour and disarming modesty, Single-Minded is an unflinching account of a remarkable career in the spotlight.

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Single-Minded: My Life in Business

The 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 that 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.

Told with characteristic candour and disarming modesty, Single-Minded is an unflinching account of a remarkable career in the spotlight.

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Single-Minded: My Life in Business

Single-Minded: My Life in Business

by Claude Littner
Single-Minded: My Life in Business

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Overview

The 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 that 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.

Told with characteristic candour and disarming modesty, Single-Minded is an unflinching account of a remarkable career in the spotlight.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780349414492
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 10/06/2016
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

CLAUDE LITTNER is a British business executive. He started his career as an accountant at Unilever in the early 1970s, and has since become a hugely successful turnaround specialist and the chief executive or chairman of a number of high-profile companies, including Tottenham Hotspur, where he was chief executive from 1993 to 1998. He is also a fixture on the BBC's hugely popular The Apprentice TV show, having appeared in every series since it first aired in 2005.

In 2014, the University of West London's business school was named after Claude in appreciation of his exemplary professional track record and contributions to the university. He is currently a visiting professor there, focusing on training the next generation of outstanding business people.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

'Sugar, but no milk!' 1

'Littner, fond de la classe' 9

Early encounters with the greasy corporate pole 17

A good idea 30

The School of Hard Knocks 44

How do you say 'You're fired' … in French? 53

Meeting Mr Sugar 72

Siesta and fiesta 81

'It's like World War Three in there!' 91

It could only happen in football 113

Lifesavers 124

Getting back on track 139

From eleven-a-side to five-a-side 155

Floating Powerleague 171

The fiasco at ASCO 187

The Apprentice - the interviews 210

The eyes and ears of Alan Sugar 228

The wheel turns full circle 246

Amounting to something 261

Acknowledgements 271

Picture credits 275

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