Synopses & Reviews
< br=""> You may know how to eat dinner???but do you know how to devour wisdom at the same time? Jeffrey J. Fox does, and in the same counterintuitive and upbeat style as his previous books, < i=""> Business Lessons Learned at the Family Dinner Table<> will incorporate stories about lessons learned at the dinner table from members of the founders' families of some of the biggest, most notable companies, such as Busch, Wrigley, Ford, and Gallo, and celebrities such as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, George Steinbrenner, Michael Mondavi, Mark Andretti, and Drew Barrymore, or other contributors of a similar caliber. His winning lessons include: < r=""> < ul=""> < br=""> < li=""> You Can???t Unsour the Milk< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < br=""> < li=""> You???re Not at School to Eat Your Lunch< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < br=""> < li=""> Speak Sweetly: You May Have to Eat Your Words< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < br=""> < li=""> Treat Customers as Important Guests to Your Home< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < br=""> < li=""> Little Jobs Lead to Big Jobs< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < br=""> < li=""> Always Compliment the Chef???Especially at Home< i=""> < br=""> < r=""> < l=""> < br=""> Practical, easy to read, and inspiring, these proven lessons will show how to turn breaking bread into making bank.< r="">
Synopsis
You may know how to eat dinner???but do you know how to devour wisdom at the same time? Jeffrey J. Fox does, and in the same counterintuitive and upbeat style as his previous books, Business Lessons Learned at the Family Dinner Table will incorporate stories about lessons learned at the dinner table from members of the founders' families of some of the biggest, most notable companies, such as Busch, Wrigley, Ford, and Gallo, and celebrities such as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, George Steinbrenner, Michael Mondavi, Mark Andretti, and Drew Barrymore, or other contributors of a similar caliber. His winning lessons include: You Can???t Unsour the Milk You???re Not at School to Eat Your Lunch Speak Sweetly: You May Have to Eat Your Words Treat Customers as Important Guests to Your Home Little Jobs Lead to Big Jobs Always Compliment the Chef???Especially at Home Practical, easy to read, and inspiring, these proven lessons will show how to turn breaking bread into making bank.
Synopsis
The bestselling author of
How to Become CEO returns with a pithy, smart, and useful collection of wisdom learned by business leaders at their own family dinners.
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 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, 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:
- You can't unsour the milk.
- 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 the Author
JEFFREY J. FOX is the founder of Fox and Co., Inc., a premier marketing consulting company, serving over sixty companies in sixty industries. Prior to starting Fox and 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.