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Summary: More business books and software should be this good!
Review: I found this book to be very good! It is quick and easy to read. I finished it on one plane trip. It is motivating and presents its ideas in 75 tips. I passed it along as a "must read" to peers in an executive roundtable group. All 75 tips are great, I have my own top six favorites including: 1. Do not get discouraged by the idea killers. 2. Never panic or lose your temper. 3. Always take a vacation. 4. Do something hard and lonely. 5. Think for 1 hour a day. 6. Try something new; like Neurosync behavior modification software. The author's validity in compiling this list added to my satisfaction of the book.
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Summary: Keep it where you can review it in down moments
Review: When I orignially read through this book I thought it was rather disappointing. The author seemed to be breaking the tough work of becoming a CEO down into simple rules, and that is generally not possible.However now that I've left the book lying around my house my opinion has changed. The ability to pick up the book and get good advice in a page or two is excellent. The advice is sound and very specific. For example, Fox suggests a specific way of handling a character assasin that turns the assasin's words back onto himself or herself.
I often think of these specific pieces of advice when I'm deciding what to do next in my day or on a road trip. Overall, an excellent guide!
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Summary: Great little book that serves as a great reminder
Review: As you probably know that this book is filled with tips/suggestions to make it to the top. Here are some of his tips:
* Get and keep customers for your company
* Make one good ally in your company every month
* Avoid staff jobs, seek line jobs
* Find companies inner circle, why are that inner circle, determine necessary credentials and get in there
* Work on projects that are visible or pet projects of sernior people. Ask people what are big problems are. Think it through, work on solutions, test them. Write up your proposals, and get proper distribution of your ideas. |-POSITIVE-|
1.Easy to read and straight to the point
2.As I read, I saw where I was making mistakes in my past jobs and I saw his advice in others success.
3.A lot of it is common sense but that common sense lots of time is forget, great reminder, it is short so its easy to flip through the book for a nice reminder.
4.He offers tips not only what to do inside the business, but also what do with in your personal life, because that's where it starts. He even offers other books to read.
5.it contains that kind of information that I for sure will reread from time to time. |-NEGATIVE-|
I can't think of negative, except maybe that a lot of it is common sense but even common sense is needed to make it to the top.
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Summary: Concise Book With Excellent Advice
Review: How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization, by Jeffrey J. Fox, is an excellent reference for acheiving in the corporate environment. Mr. Fox provides 75 pointers in an easy-to-read format that, if implemented, will undoubtedly make a difference in anyone's career. These include tips like "don't expect the personnel department to plan your career" and "never surprise your boss". None of these are particularly surprising, but all are important, and this book provides handy reminders.
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Summary: A Book to Revisit Every Few Years
Review: I'm not a fan of the self-help, who-moved-my-cheese, expand-a-single-idea-into-a-$20-sale book. I approach most of these with cynicism and skepticism. That said, I highly recommend this book and have used it twice in the past two years for a book discussion I ran for young stars at our company. I usually consider these business books worthwhile if 50 percent of the advice is on target for me. I find, with CEO, that the rough mix is 50 percent of the information is dead-on, 30 percent is a pretty decent fit for me, and 20 percent just doesn't make sense. The odd thing, I've found, is the mix of Fox's rules that fall into each category tends to change with each reading (I've read it three times in the last five years). Why is this so? I suspect different concepts resonate at different points in your career, that your evolving experiences validate different rules at different times. For instance, I thought Fox was being a bit puritanical and uptight when I first read his rule about having a drink with the gang. Then I watched a fellow manager tie one on with his staff, which led to a round of truth-or-dare, which led to a level of intimacy that heightened tension in the office for months. I now get Fox's point, don't even open the door to the possibility (or as we Catholics call them, near occasions of sin!). Read this book. Pick a few rules that really hit home for you. Try them on for size. Re-read it again every 18-24 months and try on a few more. While few are completely original, it's a pithy, pointed compendium of good rules by which to do business.
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Summary: The book is _OK_ . No big deal
Review: The book is _ok_. No big deal.
Unlike the _CEO_ genre books by other authors like Emma Benton, this one sticks to its title - How to _BECOME_ CEO. So throughout, theres that strange aura of the assumption that you are lower in the coorporate ladder and are struggling to climb without much luck. And that's why you need this book. THAT, is a serious demotivator. For I've read books that make you feel you are CEO and the feeling in return, gets you there. THUMB RULE - To have power, act like you have power. But otherwise, some sections are intriguing indeed.
- Skip all Office parties
- Never travel with superiors
- Arrive 45 mins early leave 15 mins late
- Don't carry work home Informative? I don't know. Intriguing. Yes. However, the author plays well to the readers needs. He writes things you've always wanted to do.
- Get a higher paid Job
- Think for One hour every day
- Stay our of Office Politics
- Look Sharp, Be sharp Buy it. But it deserves just a skimming. so says
Capt. Jack Sparrow
cursed pirate of the carribean
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Summary: Just like his other books...
Review: This reads and looks just like his other books. I wouldn't classify this as rules for the CEO as much as they are rules for being a leader in business. But, I guess how to become CEO has a better ring to it? With that being said, I found this an enjoyable read and from time to time re-read this book. It always rings true.
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Summary: Incredibly Comprehensive
Review: Jeffrey Fox's compact, knowledgeable book is a must read for anybody with a white collar and a lot of ambition. It doesn't describe the CEO; rather, it informs one on what is needed to become one. Its chapters read, as he says, like commandments -- short, one-page explanations of what to do and what not to do (oftentimes even more helpful). All a person needs to digest this book is an hour of reading and a willingness to aspire.
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Summary: Quick and Easy
Review: YOu'ld find at least 3 or 4 things that you'll want to incorporate into your life immediately. For that alone, its worth the price.
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Summary: Audio Book- very good
Review: Very Good- contrary to some conventional train of thought- makes you think!
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