Book Review - "I'll Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse"

This book by Michael Franzese, a former mob boss, provides a view in the working of the mob and how to implement the principles he learnt in the mob for running a successful business legally.

It is written in an easily readable style without using too many fancy words. It gives a good insight on how the mob works and also the downside of running business the ‘mob way’. But as a book for providing business tips, it falls short in providing something new. The advice given inside the book are not ‘out of the world’ but the ones you can find in any other books in similar category.

I was anticipating to be a book where one can learn the good part of the way the mob works and implements the work ethics to run or start a successful business but I found the tips are the general type with some splattering of anecdotes from the author’s previous mob life and the advice was bit repetitive and it leans heavily on the sayings of Machiavelli and Solomon rather than basing it from the way the mob works – as the book was projected.

Overall, I would say the book can be a good companion for learning the basics of a business for someone starting out but not as a book to look forward to as an inspiration to provide you with new and inventive ideas.