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Jim Romeo’s book titled, “Business’s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Corporate Greed, Eccentric Entrepreneurs, and Management Oddities,” is a book about facts and fascinating information about everything related to the world of business.  The book is very simple to read and is 252 pages long.  This is 1 of several “Most Wanted” books, other topics which includes golf, military history, espionage, and cities like Chicago.  Romeo’s book is divided into approximately 60 top 10 lists, every list ranging from three to four pages in length. 

Some of the far more fascinating top 10 lists in this book deal with the following topics:

1. The oldest corporations in the United States

2. Companies who devote a lot time to charity and community outreach

3. Jobs to watch in the next decade

4. People who made it rich by the time they had been 40

5. Millionaires and billionaires who began out poor

6. Some of the dumbest things ever said by influential people

7. Presidents who had been productive organization owners as well

8. Grave web site locations of enterprise tycoons

9. Philanthropists of note

10. Businessmen and women who played golf or cards quite well

Mostly all of the top 10 lists are extremely simplistic and you can tell that the author did a fair amount of study to write this book.  Nevertheless, he falls short in several aspects and leaves the reader feeling like a number of of the excerpts from this book are incomplete or do not supply enough info to make much sense.  Sometimes, the writing style is also very elementary and you may really feel like you are wasting your time by reading the book.

Overall, this book is fine if you are looking to waste some time and learn a couple of fascinating pieces of details.  Jim Romeo’s “Most Wanted” book would be ideal if you are waiting to catch a plane at the airport or killing time between classes at school.  Otherwise, you are almost certainly greater off picking up a great biography or firm success story and learning about a firm in-depth.  Men such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and many of the United States presidents are mentioned repeatedly in this book.  Having read many biographies of these men, I recommend you pick up 1 of their biographies or autobiographies and you will understand a fantastic deal of info about some really critical people.  This book does not provide sufficient details to feel like you are really learning any data of value by reading it.  Overall, I rate this book a 2 out of 5 for the simplistic writing style and incomplete amount of info supplied by the author.