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It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks

11 reviews
John Mole

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006

Amusing, absorbing, and just plain funny
If you enjoyed Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan, and A Year In Provence, you won't be disappointed with It's All Greek to Me! You'll love it. All three books have the same ingredient, which makes them so enjoyable: humor. The sub-title: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina - and Real Greeks, tells it all. As an Englishman, John Mole truly captures the psyche of these ...

Mind Your Manners, Third Edition: Managing Business Cultures in a Global Europe

4 reviews
John Mole

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003

Brilliant review of cultural management
A 1993 London FINANCIAL TIMES "Book of the Year", this book continues to be useful. John Mole's management seminars are familiar to us and his book sparks with his seminar wit. It is hard to fault his insightful analysis of cultural behaviour. As well, it is a valuable analysis of how to do business outside of one's culture. One need only to look at Mole's analysis of Germany and Russia to ...

I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia

1 review
John Mole

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008

A modern fable
As a rule, I do not review books which replace their capital R's with Russian Ya's. I find it to be a rather reliable predictor (along with, say, matryoshkas ) that hokiness lies between the covers. Thankfully, I forgot that rule for a moment and picked up John Mole's memoir of his years working to set up a fast food chain in Russia. Laced with a refreshingly dry and self-deprecating wit, it ...

Sail or Return

1 review
John Mole

Century, 1986

For those who have thought about making a new start ...,
Entertaining 80's comic novel about one man's farcical attempts to make a fresh start in life. Pat Brown has a stable but very boring job as chief auditor in an American bank in the City of London, a nice but boring house in a suburban area of England, a loving wife, Thea, and two children. He dreams of a more exciting life, but might never have tried to act on his dreams had not two things ...