Business tips from a mobster?  Seems strange at first glance, I know.

However, it turns out that multi-billion dollar mob operations (including both legal and illegal activities) are run with similar business ideas and models as all the other ones.

In I’ll Make You An Offer You Can Refuse, former mobster Michael Franzese presents an honest account of what he believes are good business tips from his past ventures.  If you’ve never read a business book before, then you’ll get some good ideas from it.  His discussions of Solomon and Machiavelli are dead on and his stories about past experiences with the mob are entertaining.

However, if you read business idea books on a regular basis, then you’ll probably not learn anything new from this one.  His tips are very basic such as to learn when to not talk during meetings or to find you a close team that you trust to run things when you can’t.  Good ideas but nothing brilliantly new.

In the end, don’t feel like you missed much if you never read this one.  On a side note, the free e-book and audio book that comes with it is a great idea from the publishers.