Still looking for room at the top? There are three right ways to get there, according to researchers for the University of Michigan.
A survey of 1,100 just-promoted business execs finds the fastest tracks to the top of a corporation are in marketing-sales, general management-administration and finance accounting.
The survey also shows the successful executive in 1985 to be–surprise–a white male, 47 years old, Protestant and married once to a wife who usually does not work outside the home. He also is a first child born in the East or Midwest, has an advanced university degree and is employed in a manufacturing business.
Those in top management enjoy a median salary of $129,000, have a free car, club membership, stock options, cash bonuses and deferred compensation.
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