How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There by D. A. Benton (2000)

How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There by D. A. Benton (2000)


How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There




If anybody knows what it takes to get you to the top of the corporate ladder, it’s #1 executive coach Debra Benton. Now, in this follow-up to her best-selling How to Think Like a CEO, she draws upon her work with top-level executives at corporate giants such as AT&T, Colgate, Pepsi, Mobil Oil, Nabisco, American Express, and McKinsey, and interviews she conducted with 100 CEOs around the world, to:
• Identify the 10 “rules of the game” ambitious managers need to follow if they want to make it to the top slot
• Show how successful CEOs apply the rules in their everyday business dealings, and what happens when they break them
• Provide managers with valuable pointers on how to apply each rule in their professional lives

Written by one of the most respected executive coaches in the world, How to Act Like a CEO is must reading for ambitious managers in every industry, whether they aspire to being CEOs or not.



About the author (2000)

D.A. Benton founded Benton Management Resources in 1976 to provide executive development and career counseling. She has worked in seventeen countries and her numerous media appearances around the world have brought her wide acclaim. Her clients include AT&T, American Express, Pepsi, United Airlines, Nabisco, Mobil Oil, PricewaterhouseCoopers & Lybrand, and NASA. Benton is also the bestselling author of How to Think Like a CEO and Secrets of a CEO Coach.




Bibliographic information
for How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There
Title How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There
Author D. A. Benton
Publisher McGraw Hill Professional, 2000
ISBN 0071374590, 9780071374590
Length 224 pages