How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table

How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table

By Jeffrey J Fox

The bestselling author of "How to Become CEO" returns with a pithy, smart, and useful collection of wisdom learned at the dinner table by business leaders such as Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks; Tom Chappell, founder of Toms of Main; Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals; and George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees.

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Publisher: Hyperion Books.
Publish Date: 06/05/2007
Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781401303303
ISBN-10: 1401303307
Language: English

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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.

About the Author

JEFFREY J. FOX is the founder of Fox & Co., Inc., a premier marketing consulting company, serving over sixty companies in sixty industries. Prior to starting Fox & Co., Mr. Fox. was VP of Marketing and Corporate VP of Loctite Corporation. He was also director of marketing for the wine division of Pillsbury, and held various senior marketing posts at Heublein, Inc., in

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