Name: How to become CEO
ISBN: 9780786864379

How to become CEO

Never Write a Nasty Memo Skip All Office Parties Overpay Your People Don't Go Over Budget Make Allies of Your Peers' Subordinates Don't Have a Drink with the GangIs this how you thought you would get ahead in today's business world? In this insightful handbook, marketing consultant Jeffrey J. Fox offers provocative and controversial advice on how to climb to the top without losing your grip. The seventy-five "rules" Fox presents outline actions readers must take, traits they must develop, and the things they must avoid doing if they want to succeed. This straightforward guide sets forth the qualities for every successful leader: vision, persistence, integrity, and respect for everyone in the workplace. And each simple lesson in How to Become CEO resonates with indisputable wisdom.

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SchwolopJun 2017

How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization by Jeffrey J Fox

I found this book in a library's junk pile, evidently unread. It has one of those bad 80s covers that suggest it'll be terrible, but to my great surprise, it's great! It's 80 or so one page missives/dictums/edicts that'll take barely half an hour to read through - I re-read it every time I have a job interview coming up or a some kind of major life choice. The author's tone is abrasively direct; this is how it is, not how it should be. And the advice isn't just for wannabe CEOs, it's accessible and attainable for everyone.

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dpapathanasiouDec 2009

"Do tell them your current status and salary"

I could not disagree more.

If you're switching jobs, one of your goals should be to get the most salary you can (many reasons for this, best described in detail by Jeffrey J. Fox in his "How to Become CEO" book).

Telling the recruiter (and thus the hiring firm) how much you make now is a mistake b/c they'll use that to make an incremental increase over your current salary (say 10 to 20 percent), whereas they might have been willing to offer you much more.

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