On Sale: Jun 5, 2007
Page Count: 208 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 9781401303303

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The bestselling author of How to Become CEO returns with a pithy, smart, and useful collection of wisdom learned by business leaders at their own family dinners.

Do you want to get to the top? Do you want to know how to rise above the crowd and become a leader in your field? Then this is the book for you. In How to Get to the Top, bestselling author Jeffrey J. Fox combines his own experience as an extremely successful entrepreneur with lessons learned at the family dinner table by business leaders such as Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks; Tom Chappell, founder of Tom’s of Maine; Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals; and George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees. The essential guide on how to get to the top–and stay there–this compelling book contains hard-hitting advice on independence and self-reliance, management dynamics, and problem solving, including:

You can’t unsour the milk.
Speak sweetly: You may have to eat your words.
Tip as if you were the tippee.
Act like you own the place.
You have to know the rules to break them.
Never be late.
Always compliment the chef . . . especially at home.
Teach your girls to whistle.
Spend the company’s money as you would your own.
Don’t teach the quarterback to catch.

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Jeffrey J. Fox

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For over 25 years, Jeffrey Fox has been helping clients grow revenues and increase gross margins. Jeffrey is founder of Fox & Company, a management consulting firm that shows clients how to dollarize their value proposition to overcome the price objection and to shorten the sales cycle. Fox has written eleven best-selling business books that have been translated into over thirty languages. Fox is the author of How to Become CEO which was on the NY Times, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Knight-Ridder, and Amazon.com best seller lists. His books have been best sellers in France, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Russia. His book How to Become a Rainmaker was selected as one of the 100 best business books ever written. His Dollarization Discipline was selected as one of the top thirty business books of 2005. He is a popular speaker, appearing regularly before senior management groups and sales forces. Jeff is a graduate of Harvard Business School. Fox & Company is located in Chester, CT.

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