Most books about career advancement are either weighty examinations about success in the workplace (e.g., How to Be a Star at Work and Working with Emotional Intelligence) or flippant, humorous takes on surviving the countless inanities of modern work life (e.g., Working Wounded). Jeffrey Fox's book, How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization is neither. Instead, Fox presents 75 commonsense rules about successfully conducting your career. Rules like "Know Everybody by Their First Name" and "No Goals No Glory" may seem obvious; others, such as "Don't Take Work Home from the Office" or "Don't Have a Drink with the Gang" may not. Each is accompanied by page or two of succinct and thought-provoking explanation. For example, for rule 27, "Don't Hide an Elephant," Fox writes, "Big problems always surface. If they have been hidden, even unintentionally, the negative fallout is always worse. The 'hiders' always get burned, regardless of complicity. The 'discoverers' always are safe, regardless of complicity." Wise and to the point, How to Become CEO will help just about anybody's career, whether you want to become CEO or not. --Harry C. Edwards
Autorenkommentar
Jeffrey Fox, July 2000
Hello readers and Amazonians! Thank you for your interest in How To Become CEO. I have been amazed at the interest this book has generated around the world. Despite the title, I have heard from many readers who do not aspire to the CEO job, but simply are looking for ways to get ahead. As one reviewer commented, it should have been titled How To Win Raises and Promotions. I like that! It would have been a great subtitle.
The title comment is insightful. The book was originally untitled. It existed as a collection of private ideas I prepared for my children, friends, and clients. The advice in the book is about how to succeed in an organization, but also about being CEO of your life, or CEO of your job, your classroom, your lathe, your territory, your store, your table, yourself.
The advice is unconventional, but because it is for people I know, the advice is not intended to make people fail. How To Become CEO made the New York Times, Business Week and Wall Street Journal best seller lists. Thousands of readers who bought or were given the book have, in turn, bought it for others. It is now in its 13th U.S. printing and is being published in over twenty languages and available in over 50 countries.
I deeply appreciate the publics response to this little book, and am thrilled by the letters and comments I receive from all over the world. If you are ambitious, How To Become CEO was written for you. All the best of luck to you in your career.
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Prior to starting Fox & Co. Jeffrey J. Fox worked in senior positions for three high powered consumer and industrial marketing companies. He was Vice President , Marketing, and a Corporate Vice President of Loctite Corp, now Henkel/Loctite. He was Director of Marketing for the wine divisions of The Pillsbury Co. He was the Director of New Products for Heublein, Inc, now Diageo. (All three companies became clients of Fox & Co.) Jeffrey is the winner of Sales & Marketing Management magazine's "Outstanding Marketer Award;" winner of the American Marketing Association's "Outstanding Marketer in Connecticut;" and the National Distributors Association's award as the nation's "Best Industrial Marketer." He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study that is rated one of the top 100 case studies, and which is thought to be the most widely taught marketing case in the world. His books have been published in 35 languages. His offices are in Chester, Connecticut.
