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The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
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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
November 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
Pardon
Me,
That's My
Throne
I 25
A
CEO-VOLUTION
(THROUGH
MY
FATHER
'S
EYES)
The
single
most
important
CEO
trait is leadership.
If
you can 't
lead, you can't be
CEO
. It 's
not
something you must be b
orn
with,
though
some are. You can develop it. But it's necessary. You
don't
need charisma,
but
you must lead.
How
can you learn to lead? Well, I assure you I wasn 't
born
to be a leader
-very
far from
it-
so let me take you
throu
gh my
personal evolution to show you
what
I did, because yours can be
similar.
For
me it began with my father, Philip Fisher.
He
was
hella
smart
but
suffered a
then
-undiagnosed condition now wide ly
known as Asperger's
Syndrome-a
form
of
near-autism often called
"Geek's Syndrome" because sufferers often seem "geeky." T hey
have ultra-high IQs, are
great
with
mat
h, verba l, and written skills,
but
have
poor
social skills. Typica lly, they're physically twitchy,
pace
the
floor, and can't keep
their
hands from tapping.
The
y have
almost no ability to fathom
how
others feel.
That
is
the
defining
feature
of
someone with Asperger's.
My
father was classic.
He
could
say
the
cruelest
thing
s, yet wasn't cruel.
He
simply didn't know you
would react
that
way when anyone else would
've-like
a vacuum in
the
feelings department.
Like
most
Asperger's sufferers, my father
spent
lots
of
time
alone thinking.
He
was a
great
thinker-just
didn't
feel much.
He
loved sitting alone
thinking-hour
s on end in solitude! But he was
generous with his time with me.
He
may have been
the
world's best
bedtime
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