How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786864370 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 162 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now Updated and with New Success Tips for Everyone, at Any Level! Vision, persistence, integrity, and respect for everyone in the workplace--these are all qualities of successful leaders. But Jeffrey J. Fox, the founder of a marketing consulting company, also gives these tips: never write a nasty memo, skip all office parties, and overpay your people. These are a few of his key ways to climb the corporate ladder.
"If you need to be told not to get drunk with coworkers…" according to A. SLOAN. The English language lacks the appropriate verbiage to convey the true silliness of this book. This book is essentially written by an older white man giving his "rules" for how to get ahead but without actually providing any real concrete information on the type of knowledge you will need.. A. Harris said but you will do much better reading Jack Welch or some of the other top. If you're serious about getting on a CEO track, don't read this book. I quit reading when he said let other people write monthly reports and turn them in without reviewing them. What a joke. Any upper level manager understands that you have to work within the system most of the time or you'll get flagged as a trouble maker. This guy has obviously never been a CEO in a decent sized company. There are a few tidbits here and there that are ok, but you will do much better reading Jack Welch or some of the other top guys.. Good for low-level execs in large corporations Michael A. Behr This book doesn't tell you how to become CEO, but it does give a hanful of rules - some useful, some not so useful - for behaving in a large corporate environment. A lot of those tips don't really seem to apply for small internet companies (often one and the same). One theme in particular that doesn't fit in the small office environment is taking the idea that "CEOs should be distant" and taking that to mean "you should act distant, even if you're not a CEO."A lot of the rules, or tips really, that Fox presents are the sort of thing my Dad (who worked in a large corporation) kept telling me as a young man. He really enjoyed reading the
If they have been hidden, even unintentionally, the negative fallout is always worse. Each is accompanied by page or two of succinct and thought-provoking explanation. Rules like "Know Everybody by Their First Name" and "No Goals No Glory" may seem obvious; others, such as "Don't Take Work Home from the Office" or "Don't Have a Drink with the Gang" may not. Instead, Fox presents 75 commonsense rules about successfully conducting your career. For example, for rule 27, "Don't Hide an Elephant," Fox writes, "Big problems always surface. Edwards. The 'discoverers' always are saf