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Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons

Seymour Schulich offers a collection of life and business lessons drawn from a long career, written for readers who are early in their working lives. The book is organized into standalone chapters, each addressing a practical question: how to make a decision, how to handle different kinds of relationships, how to choose a career, how to recover from setbacks, the central issues of running a business, and lessons about investing.

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Its tone is candid and anecdotal rather than academic. Readers who want advice from someone who has lived it will find plenty to consider, whatever their age.

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