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Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life. New York, NY : Broadside Books , 2013

2013

Broadside Books

Authors - Rumsfeld, Donald H.

Subjects

Management and Governance

Authors

Rumsfeld, Donald H.

Publishers

Broadside Books

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