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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  As Lord Sugar writes in the foreword to Claude's story, the book 'should be recommended reading for anyone who aspires to make their way in business . . . 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Littner's single-mindedness has seen him through difficult corporate turnarounds, public criticism in the media, being diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and given six months to live, and numerous other challenges. 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