November 2009
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
by Ken Fisher, Lara W. Hoffmans
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PARDON
ME,
THAT'S
MY
THRONE
Respon
sibilit
y and running things come
easy?
But yo
u'r
e no visionary founder?
Maybe the corner office is in your f
ut
ure.
S
ome of our finest
CE
Os didn't found the firms they lea
d-
like GE's Jack Welch.
No
n-founder
CE
Os can take firms to
unthought-of heights. Sometimes reinventing is easier than
creating from whole cloth , so while founder-C
EO
s usually rank
higher in mega-wealth, just becoming
CE
O pays big. And it is a
rich road indeed- even if you don't aspire to billionaire status. Fully
half of America's largest firm CEOs make in excess of $8.3 million .
I
Warning: Heavy is the head wearing the
CEO
crown. Firm
successes are rarely wholly, directly attributed to
CEOs
-as
in,
"success has a thou sand fathers but failure is a bastard." T he bas-
tard is the CE O, always. So a big failure can kill your future .
CEO
s
must be toug
h-
more now than ever. Failed
CEO
s don't just lose
their jobs
-th
ey frequently end up vilified by the media, even
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