Want to be CEO? It's Easy. Luck, Talent, and Work Your A*@ Off
What does it take to ratchet your way up to CEO? Luck? Skill? Talent? Prepare to be disappointed. It's work . Work hard. Work, work. And never stop. Or so says Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, at smartplanet.com. Pfeffer examined the habits of over 150 successful writers, artists and scientists. Pritchett writes in his findings that "the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing," Charlie Osborne writes. In total, most clocked in 60 - 65 hours of work a week. What's one of the biggest ways to succeed? Learning how to say 'no' is a key skill that most successful people master, according to Osborne. Guess what? It's luck. What's that old saying? Success is where luck and talent meet? Something like that. "Hard work and saying no are all good and well, but how do you explain the lucky breaks that successful people seem to have? According to author of 'The Luck...