Why The Life Of Beatles Manager Brian Epstein Is The Perfect Parable For Professional Success

By Ruth Blatt | FORBES | November 19, 2013

In early 1967 Beatles manager Brian Epstein was about to board a plane from New York to London when he had a strong feeling the plane was going to crash. His escalating drug habit and nonstop work regime had pushed him to the edge of sanity. As he boarded the plane, certain of his impending death, he passed a note to Nat Weiss, the Beatles’ legal representative in the U.S., that read, “Brown paper jackets for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

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