If you go into any bookshop, you will find lots of books about business. How much do these books actually help people to succeed in their professional careers? A few books have undoubtedly been highly influential, and others (such as the increasingly popular biographies of successful business people) have been inspirational, but in the endless search for new publishing successes, many books seem to invent ideas or jargon which have little practical use.

With this article you can:

• practise your listening and reading comprehension
• learn some new vocabulary
• revise expressions of quantity
• focus on understanding connected speech