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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: This book is about getting ahead among equals.
Review: Companies, normally, don't hire incompetent people, yet there is place for only a chosen few at the top. This book is about getting ahead among equals; it is not about increasing your business or managerial competence; these are implicitly assumed, as without them you are not even a contestant.
Though I have just started my career, I can vouch for the effectiveness of the advice presented in this book. Further, I have used the information presented here to evaluate my superiors, and have found it to be fairly accurate.
People who have found objections to heeding to senior executives requests should have read the complete chapter - it later says:
"Listen carefully to the request. The guy might be suggesting a solution, not stating the core problem. However, what he really wants is the problem solved."
Those who get ahead, besides being smart, are problem solvers; and problem solvers in turn will only choose other problem solvers.
Hence, if an executive asks you to water his plants, a stupid person would pick up the water hose and start on the job; however, a smart person after verifying that the plants are not made of plastic :), would think about either: a) ways of automating the process, or b) replacing them with plastic.
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Summary: Great book but needs to be organized better....
Review: First and foremost, let me say that I read a lot of business / strategy / leadership books. John Maxwell's books, Power of Leadership and 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader are also good reads too. This book would normally get a 5 star rating because it has great bang for the buck. A lot of great wisdom for little cost. But, I am taking off a star because execution was mentioned towards the end. In my opinion, investors pay for execution of a business model. PERIOD. If you don't execute on a proposed business plan you are dead. You won't get to the top because the CEO knows that is what Wall Street and investors demand. I believed that the author used great examples and quotes and is concise and straight to the point. I recommend this book for anyone who wants an easy to read, compact book (good size) and large # of tips on how to get ahead in business, and in life. I believe the key ingredient in getting long-term value out of this book is to highlight the quotes/stories you love and integrate them into your daily life. Practice what you read if it ties in with your values.
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Summary: Great Business Tips - Bathroom Style
Review: Fox's book is a little tome that is filled with wisdom how to succeed in business or any organization for that matter. While its highly geared for a person who works for a large company its advice is still helpful elsewhere. Fox offers a plethora of tips ranging from when to arrive and leave from work to how handle business trips with your boss all in short form, usually a page or two. This work is very easy to read and understand, there's no complex studies in management involved. All just simple common sense that we often don't think of. A few of his tips seem a little strange, such as never drinking with your coworkers or rarely attending company events outside work. Other then those, this book contains tons of useful ideas for putting you on the road to success. It's easy to read format also makes this book not only informative but great bathroom reading too.
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Summary: 75 Excellent Bullet points.
Review: Having never risen to the position of CEO, I can't say that the title is "proven". However, it contains 75 bullet points with 1-3 page explanations, of how to become person of respect within any organization. Some of it makes perfect sense, some of it is a bit shocking, but well defended. ("Don't attend office parties", "don't EVER have a drink with the gang", "don't work late hours", and "don't take work home with you") I just wish I could REMEMBER everything that was written in the book and implement it in my work situation. It has definitely changed my attitude about my workplace.
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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: 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: Incredibly Comprehensive
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: 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: How to live your corporate life...
Review: Ignore the "How to Become CEO" portion of the title. Focus just on the byline: "The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization". That is truly what this book is about. Fox has organized this book into 75 nuggets of no-nonsense advice for living your corporate life. Each chapter is an average of 3 pages, and is devoted to backing up one nugget of advice. I don't believe anything he says is earth shattering, nor do I believe it possible to implement all of his ideas. However, the way each idea was backed up with simple reasoning and examples made it easy to understand the motivation behind it. It also made it easy to determine whether it was applicable to my situation and in many cases, gave examples of how to handle particular situations. I can speak from my own experience that just implementing two pieces of his advice has positively changed the way that I approach my work environment and the way coworkers and management perceive me. This was well worth the money I spent on this book. There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who is serious in advancing into the ranks of upper management will find a minimum of 3-5 nuggets that help shape their attitudes and habits to attain that goal within this book!
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