How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization - Hardcover

Fox, Jeffrey J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786864370 ISBN 13: 9780786864379

Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets, 1998

Synopsis

In How to Become CEO, consultant Jeffrey Fox has written an insightful handbook of traits to develop for all generations of CEO aspirants - or for anyone who wants to get ahead in today's business world. Open it to any page and find a short, provocative piece of brutally honest advice written in a conversational tone. Each of the seventy-five "rules" focuses on a specific action that should be taken, a trait that needs to be developed, or a prohibition to follow. The words never and always are used frequently. These are smart, no-nonsense business messages that are meant to be revisited in your rise to the top. Anyone looking to climb the corporate ladder will be grateful for Fox's direct, pithy advice - the essentials to follow if you want to reach the top.

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Review:

"Even MBAs from the best graduate business schools will find essential insights and practical lessons in HOW TO BECOME CEO."
--John Quelch, former Sebasitan Kresge Professor of marketing at Harvard Business Schoo, now Dean of London Business School

From the Publisher:

Climb to the Top of Your Profession
If you want to become president or CEO of a corporation, buy a business, start a business, or have a long, fruitful career in a large corporation, How to Become CEO is the essential guide for you. The seventy-five rules written and read by Jeffrey J. Fox--founder of a marketing consulting firm and an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School--are actions you must take, traits you must develop, and things you must avoid in order to succeed. Get the edge in all of your professional pursuits with this practical program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0786864370
• ISBN 13: 9780786864379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192