Stanley Bing

What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness

What Would Machiavelli Do?

He would feast on other people's discord

He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand either

He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry

He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward

He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control

He would use other people's opinions to sell his book!

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Executricks… Or How to Retire While You're Still Working

People in the high flush of a successful but sometimes frenetic business career often look with envy at those who have entered their golden years. Ah! they think. To be retired! At the same time, you may not be emotionally–or financially–ready to hang it all up. Executricks is the most precious of resources for those who work hard but would rather be hardly working: a secret handbook that lays bare the stratagems of those who have already ascended to the pinnacles of power.
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100 Bulls**t Jobs...And How to Get Them

The scholarly discipline of Bulls**t Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are serious about their Bulls**t and prepared to dedicate their working life to it.
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Crazy Bosses

Bing is back on his home turf in this funny, true, and essential book, peering with his keen and frosty eye at the crazy boss in all his guises: the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp, and the self-destructive Disaster Hunter.
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Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation

A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification - at a high cost in shattered lives. Stanley Bing mingles business parable and cautionary tale into an ingenious, often hilarious new telling of the story of the Roman Empire.
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Sun Tzu Was a Sissy : Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War

Sun Tzu was a Sissy will teach the reader how to make war, win and enjoy the plunder in the real world, where those who do not kick, gouge and grab are left behind at the table to pay the tab. Every other book on The Art of War bows low to Sun Tzu. We’re going to tell him to get lost and inform our readers how real war is currently conducted on the battlefield of life.
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The Big Bing : Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe

For twenty years, Stanley Bing has offered insight, wisdom, and advice from inside the belly of one of the great corporate beasts. In one essential volume, here is all you need to know to master your career, your life, and, when necessary, other weaker life forms.
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Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up

A funny, transcendently simple, ultra-enlightening and very Zen guide in the model of What Would Machiavelli Do? that helps you to manipulate and control the large, grey behemoths that run the world, otherwise known as your boss.
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You Look Nice Today: A Novel

Robert Harbert, better known as Harb, is Executive Vice President in Charge of Total Quality. CaroleAnne Winter is the assistant who runs his life. But even Harb can’t ignore that CaroleAnne’s behavior is increasingly peculiar. At the same time, the vagaries of corporate power shift, and suddenly, both Harb and his Total Quality mandate are vulnerable. It’s at this moment that CaroleAnne levels a stunning charge: that she has been the target of an organized campaign of sexual harassment from her first days at the company.
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Lloyd: What Happened

Meet Lloyd. Fast-rising executive and dedicated family man. Beautiful, independent wife. Two children. All the toys he could want. And just to keep things from getting too dull, he’s about to explore a highly personal relationship with Mona, the dynamic and lovely Senior Vice President of Finance. Then Lloyd’s boss decides to take over the world, or a large chunk of it.
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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.