

How to Get to the Top
Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table
Author: Jeffrey J. Fox
Narrator: Jeffrey J. Fox
Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: 05/29/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Self-help, Personal Growth
Synopsis
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