{"product_id":"how-to-get-to-the-top-business-lessons-learned-at-the-dinner-table-9781401303303","title":"How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Become CEO\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a pithy, smart, and useful collection of wisdom learned by business leaders at their own family dinners.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 book for you. In \u003ci\u003eHow to Get to the Top\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, CEO 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 book contains hard-hitting advice on independence and self-reliance, management dynamics, and problem solving, including: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou can't unsour the milk. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpeak sweetly: You may have to eat your words. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTip as if you were the tippee. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct like you own the place. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou have to know the rules to break them. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever be late. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlways compliment the chef . . . especially at home. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeach your girls to whistle. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpend the company's money as you would your own. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon't teach the quarterback to catch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJEFFREY J. FOX\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder of Fox \u0026amp; Co., Inc., a premier marketing consulting company, serving over sixty companies in sixty industries. Prior to starting Fox \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Fox. was VP of Marketing and Corporate VP of Loctite Corporation. He was also director of marketing for the wine division of Pillsbury, and held various senior marketing posts at Heublein, Inc, including Director of New Products. Fox is the winner of Sales and Marketing Management magazine's Outstanding Marketer Award; and the National Industrial Distributors 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 is thought to be the most widely taught marketing case in the world. Fox has been a guest lecturer at The Harvard Business School (from which he has an MBA), The Amos Tuck School, The Conference Board, and numerous other organizations. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Marketing, and numerous other publications, and he is a member of the Board of Trustees at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He works in Avon, CT, and lives in New Hampshire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849751105810,"sku":"9781401303303","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be687094-23f1-4263-b5ac-57585e7288c8.jpg?v=1737401454","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-get-to-the-top-business-lessons-learned-at-the-dinner-table-9781401303303","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}