How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table
Written by Jeffrey J. Fox
Narrated by Jeffrey J. Fox
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About this audiobook
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 audio 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, Chairman 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 audiobook contains hard-hitting advice on independence and self-reliance, management dynamics, and problem solving, including:
• 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
Jeffrey J. Fox
Jeffrey J. Fox is the founder and president of Fox & Company, Inc., a marketing consulting firm that specializes in marketing strategy development, innovation, enhancement, and selling skills training. In addition, Fox is a popular speaker and the acclaimed author of a series of hard-hitting international business best-sellers, How to Become CEO, How to Become a Rainmaker, and Secrets of Great Rainmakers among others.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great and fun book. I listened to the audio version, very well done. In general, its worth the time.