How to Get to the Top, Jeffrey J. Fox
How to Get to the Top, Jeffrey J. Fox
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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

Published: 05/29/2007


Synopsis

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

About Jeffrey J. Fox

Jeffrey J. Fox has written several bestselling business books, including How To Become A Rainmaker and How to Become CEO. The founder of Fox & Company, a premier marketing consulting firm, he has been named “Outstanding Marketer” by Sales and Marketing Management magazine. He has held senior marketing positions at several international companies and is a sought-after speaker to senior executives. A graduate of Trinity College, he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in New Hampshire and has offices in Avon, Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ling on November 20, 2017

It's a short and simple book that gives you insights, opinions, ways about business that often overlook in our ordinary lives. I like how it separate events or discussions that are in small chunks and simple language.......more

Goodreads review by Norhaizan on August 29, 2019

Easy to understand. Easy to practice.......more

Goodreads review by David on September 22, 2011

Some good advice, but the book didn't seem to go far enough. It didn't tell which business leaders gave which advice, nor how they applied it. Additionally, the business leaders are generally ones I haven't heard of (with some exceptions, like George Steinbrenner). It would have been nice if the lik......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 28, 2012

Very clever little book---takes a ton of what families talk about around the dinner table--good book.......more

Goodreads review by Mohammad on January 02, 2017

Nice and easy read, with many lessons in business world using common simple language, nice read while traveling......more


Quotes

“A street-smart marketing expert, Harvard MBA, and author of bestselling business books gives the ultimate lesson on starting a business from the ground up…It's practical advice that is put on the table in knock-your-socks-off directness that makes sense right away in your gut…. Don't start a business without hearing this essential lesson!” —AudioFile on How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business


Awards

  • Audie Award Finalist