Top Tips for Wannabe CEOs [electronic resource]
Charkin, Richard2009
eBook
Useful tips to help you climb the corporate career ladder. In today's competitive job market, you need to find an edge. What if you had one of the top CEOs in the publishing industry as your mentor? What if that mentor gave you inside information and top tips to help you plan your route to the top? And what if that mentor was available at the click of a button? In an effective but light-hearted talk, Richard Charkin (Executive Director of Bloomsbury PLC, publisher of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter novels) gives the lowdown on how to climb the career ladder: the best way to start, what pitfalls to avoid as you advance, and how to stay on top once you've got there. As a bonus, people at the top of their professions – such as best-selling author Lord Jeffrey Archer and Chief Executive of the British Library Lynne Brindley – provide questions they've always wanted the answers to. Topics covered include: -- The lessons you should learn before you even begin your climb up the ladder -- Developing a strategy -- Making allies and dealing with enemies -- The importance of networking -- Dealing with office politics -- How to get yourself noticed -- How to know when it's time to move on -- The things you have to know to be a good CEO
Main title:
Top Tips for Wannabe CEOs [electronic resource] / Richard Charkin
Author:
Charkin, Richard, AuthorPettinger, Richard, Associated name
Edition:
1
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Creative Content Ltd, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
The Lowdown
Biography/History:
Richard Charkin is Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. He is responsible for Bloomsbury's general book publishing activities in UK, USA and Germany. He is also a non-executive director of the Institute of Physics Publishing. He is a member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the British Library; a member of the Institute of English Studies Advisory Board; a member of the UK's Literary Heritage Group; a Trustee and former Chairman of Common Purpose UK; Council member and former President of the Publishers Association; and Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London. He was Chair of the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Chair of the Society of Bookmen, Chairman of xrefer.com and a director of the Centre for Creative Business at the London Business School; and non-executive director of Melbourne University Publishing. He has held senior positions at Macmillan (CEO worldwide), part of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck (Director); Current Science Group (CEO); Reed Elsevier (CEO Reed International Books); and Oxford University Press (Managing Director Academic and General Divisions). He has an M.A. in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge; was a Supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford; and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
ISBN:
9781906790295
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
355684