Become the CEO of You, Inc.: A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success [Hardcover]

Susan Bulkeley Butler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2006

"Make things happen for you, don't just let them happen to you," is Susan Bulkeley Butler's call to action for you to take responsibility for your life. Susan has mentored hundreds of women, and in Become the CEO of You, Inc. she provides you with the lessons and tools that she used in her remarkable career as the first woman partner at Accenture.

As your Virtual Mentor, Susan offers her Make-It-Happen Model, a four-step approach that sets a concrete and clear course for achieving your life's dreams. She urges you to think of yourself as the CEO of You, Inc. -- taking control, building a board of directors, setting a strategy and differentiating yourself from the competition. The book contains 32 of Susan's most important career lessons, plus action items to put them to work towards your own goals. Through it all, Susan acts as your coach every step of the way.

"Susan Bulkeley Butler's pioneering career opened important doors for the women executives who followed. I have applied her insights and tools for managing change in my professional and personal lives - with powerful results." - Karen Page, Award-winning Author, Founder and Chair, Harvard Business School Network of Women Alumnae

* An empowering book for every woman who has a dream.

* Each chapter ends with a recap of action items and activities to help you navigate your journey

Product Details

• Hardcover: 150 pages
• Publisher: Paribus Press (January 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933705000
• ISBN-13: 978-1933705002
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #970,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan is CEO of The Susan Bulkeley Butler Institute for the Development of Women Leaders and author of Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World.

In 1965, Butler was the first professional female employee at Arthur Andersen & Co., and in 1979 she became the first female partner of Andersen Consulting, now known as Accenture. Butler is currently on the Junior Achievement Worldwide Board of Directors, and the Board of Trustees of LeaderShape, Inc. Susan is a delegate at Vision 2020, a national project focused on advancing gender equality by energizing the dialogue about women and leadership. She is a past member of the Board of Trustees at Purdue University. As a philanthropist, Butler has endowed chairs, scholarships and the Butler Institute of Leadership Excellence. Late Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon presented Butler the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, Indiana's highest honor for distinguished service. Additionally she received an honorary doctorate in management from Purdue. Her aspiration is to impact "zillions of women and girls to be all they can be." She fulfills this aspiration with her new book, WOMEN COUNT, A Guide to Changing the World, her first book, Become the CEO of You, Inc, (2008), her monthly newsletter, executive coaching, speaking and conducting workshops.

Susan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management and an Honorary Doctorate in management from Purdue University. She funded the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management at Purdue's Krannert School and has also endowed scholarships and awards for outstanding students at Purdue and Simmons College.

Susan has received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Governor of Indiana for distinguished service to the state. Prior recipients include presidents, ambassadors, artists and astronauts. In 2001, Upside magazine named her to its list of "The 50 Most Remarkable Women in Technology" who have moved the industry "beyond the glass-ceiling cliché."

Susan is Past President of Purdue's President's Council and serves on the Board of Directors of the Purdue Research Foundation, the Dean's Advisory Council at Purdue's Krannert School of Management, and the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. Susan has been a member of the National Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of the USA and in 2003 was appointed to the worldwide board of Junior Achievement. She is a member of the Committee of 200 and has participated in Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" Summits.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roadmap to Success and Happiness, March 15, 2006

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Mark Zupan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Become the CEO of You, Inc.: A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success (Hardcover)

Benjamin Franklin noted that failing to prepare is preparing to fail. In her illuminating book, Susan Butler, an accomplished consultant, philanthropist, and mentor spells out some key steps one can take to prepare for and then realize success (professional and personal): first and foremost, realizing that you are the CEO of You, Inc.; creating a Vision for You, Inc.; building an advisory board/team; preparing a plan; navigating along the way; and effectively marketing You, Inc. Not only does Ms. Butler's book provide a cogent framework to prepare for and then realize success, it is also chock full of practical insights drawn from the author's own prolific career and personal accomplishments. Having benefited enormously from Susan's mentoring when I was the dean of the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management and she served as a key member of the College's advisory board, I personally can attest to the quality of her guidance. Readers of her book will be similarly well served by Susan's mentoring. I wholeheartedly recommend making Susan a member of YOUR (You, Inc.) advisory board.

Mark Zupan
Dean
Simon School of Business
University of Rochester

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I've read all year, June 1, 2006

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Debra L. Fowlks (Avon, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Become the CEO of You, Inc.: A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success (Hardcover)

I received Susan Bulkeley Butler's book so I could interview her for an article in her hometown newspaper, The Abingdon Argus. Honestly, I didn't think it would capture my attention but I was SO wrong! This book is fantastic! I felt as though Susan was speaking to me. For so many years I've waited for things to happen to me, but as Susan says, don't wait for things to happen to you, make them happen. I can't wait to apply the principles of Become the CEO of You, Inc., to my every day life.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a "How To" for success, March 21, 2006

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C. Christopherson (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Become the CEO of You, Inc.: A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success (Hardcover)

Susan shares her life lessons, gained along the road to being the first female partner of Andersen Consulting, with all the warmth of a good friend. She shares more than just "instructions" on how to achieve success, but provides you with the tools to determine for yourself how you will determine and create your own unique successes. Each lesson is punctuated with a wide variety of entertaining and enlightening anecdotes from Susan's life or a story from one of the many lives she has touched. This book is just another way for Susan to postiviely impact more individuals - please let her impact you!