As you continue reading, use these tips not just for their practicality but also as tools for career advancement, regardless of your vantage point on the totem pole.
Investors seeking to beat the market are likely going through reams of articles, reading research reports and following tips to try to find the right companies in which to invest their money.
But the current economic crisis facing the West, which has hurt British banks like Barclays and Northern Rock, could see Brown reading his predecessor's memoirs for tips on how to win elections in the midst of a catastrophe.
Yes, he was a stock picker and now after many years of reading newsletters, watching cable news and picking up tips from waiting rooms to water coolers he was done-once and for all.