Rating: 3 stars

Louis Ferrante is a former member of La Cosa Nostra who began a life of crime in his teens and was running his own crew in the Gambino crime family by his early twenties.

Ferrante found a love for books and writing while serving a twelve-year prison term. After reversing a federal charge, Ferrante was out in eight years and writing his first book: Unlocked: The Life and Crime of a Mafia Insider.

Back with his sophomore effort: Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman, Mr. Ferrante applies his underworld business acumen to the everyday corporate world in the form of eighty-eight mafia strategies, attributes and principles.

Each self-contained chapter is a mob-learned lesson with corporate world context, colorfully illustrated with captivating real-life stories from Farrante’s own experiences or those of his former associates.

Along the same lines as Michael Franzese’s I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Insider Business Tips from a Former Mob Boss, Mob Rules is written in a more succinct, immediate-gratification fashion, doling out practical advice that covers just about every type of corporate situation at all management levels.

Very useful, often funny and always to the point, Mob Rules is the perfect primer to keep on hand to solve those everyday issues that pop up during the eight-hour grind.
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (June 2, 2011)
ISBN-13: 978-1591843986