The tale rings true: it feels authentic because, unlike what you read in most management textbooks, the people in this book are the mixed bag that you find in any real-life workplace: educated, intelligent and at times collaborative but also opinionated, egotistical, jealous and proud.

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Private schools, private management of public schools and the production and distribution of textbooks are just some areas where public-private-partnerships are already active.

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Mr Lenihan's later decision to set up an asset-management agency to take on the banks' dud property loans was also taken from the textbooks.

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