Breaking Through The Silicon Ceiling
By: Christine King - Business Books - $14.95
Overview: Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling takes the reader on the amazing journey of Chris King’s life and her rise from being a poor, uneducated, 20-year-old single mom to being the world’s first female CEO of a semiconductor company.
Verdict: In a story full of twists and turns, the reader is carried through emotional highs and lows, and given the gift of learning what Chris had to learn through trial and error - that success in business is not dictated by your demographic or the types of challenges that life might throw at you.
The seeds of success are within you. In Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling, we follow Chris on her path from the trailer park to the boardroom, and we learn the 12 essential principles that guided her along the way.
Chris’ principles are hard-earned truths that have been proven time and again in her professional, avocational, and personal lives. This book will encourage and empower you to discern and chart your own path to greater success in business and life.
Packed with incredible stories of the author defying the odds to find personal and professional success, the lessons author Christine King shares here in Breaking Through the Silicon Ceiling are not only highly relatable, but makes for an engaging and inspiring read that, on a personal level, captivated me from start to finish.
A book I can see myself, and my friends, re-reading for years to come, it not only covers her amazing, and groundbreaking career and family life, but at the very same time she also teaches critical business lessons along the way.
Thus in what is a wondrously informative, and dutifully sculpted new read, and one for everyone, she passes along some invaluable life lessons, her shares making me feel as if I were right there with her, step by step.
So whether you feel stuck in work, or in life, or simply like a good story about an underdog coming out on top, this book is well worth the read.
Whether you feel stuck in work or in life or simply like a good story about an underdog coming out on top, Breaking Through The Silicon Ceiling is the book for you and is, from start to finish, is well worth the read.
About the Author - Chris King was a 20-year-old, poor, single mother with a high school diploma and few prospects in 1970. Incredibly, she would go on to become the World’s first female CEO of a semiconductor company. Today, Chris remains an active member on multinational company boards of directors and continues to compete as a champion equestrian. She lives in Scottsdale, AZ.
Gerald L. Kimber White is a writer and strategist for senior executives. He has been writing books, speeches, articles, and more for the past 25 years. He holds degrees from Birmingham-Southern College (B.A.) and Harvard Divinity School (M.Div.) and has won numerous communications industry awards.
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