The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe - Softcover
A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters.
Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all -- mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini lunch -- and has himself been painfully re-engineered a number of times. He has eaten and drunk way too much, stayed in hotels far too good for him, waited for limousines in the pouring rain, and enjoyed it all. Sort of. Most importantly, Bing has seen management at its best and worst, and has practiced both as he made the transition from an inexperienced player who hated pompous senior management to a polished strategist who kind of sees its point of view now and then.
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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With twenty years of experience as a self-described "mole in the heart of corporate capitalism," CBS executive Gil Schwartz a.k.a. columnist Stanley Bing, is a man of many words. The Big Bing, recycles two decades of artful and acid Fortune and Esquire columns into a coherent view of business as usual.
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The pieces are sectioned into themes readers will recognize--office politics, technology, life on the road, men being men, job angst. A number of columns snap and sting. For example, in "You Da Man," Bing details six species of bad bosses including "Don King without the Hair" and "the last days of Dick Nixon." He spins tales from the political crypt, asking readers to join his amusement at "the range of goofy people who are thrown together in the pursuit of political advantage."
Bing is at his best in giving amusing advice (how to give good phone, win turf wars and get a room with a view) and in business travelogues about places like Las Vegas where he sees "several apparently dead people playing slots." The writing bristles with attitude. Only a moving essay on "the mourning after" September 11 interrupts the relentless cynicism of Bing's observations. Some readers will be able stay in on the jokes. Others may find his voice tiring or unkind and may note the difference between insight and wisdom. --Barbara Mackoff
Stanley Bing is the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sizzy, 100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get Them, The Big Bing, and The Curriculum, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life. By day he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The definitive collection of thoughts, assaults, and hilarious observations from Americas premier business humorist and bestselling author of Throwing the Elephant and What Would Machiavelli Do The Big Bing will be a mandatory addition to the library of everyone who works for a living, or would like to. For nearly 20 years, Stanley Bings funny, wise, pleasantly mean-spirited, and at times even useful columns have delighted readers in the pages of Esquire, Fortune and a variety of other national publications. Bing has lived the last two decades inside the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos. And he has seen it all: the high body count after many a gruesome deal, the machine that grinds up the bones of those who stood in its way, the birth and death of executive dinosaurs (and hes had quite a few lunches with some of them, too). The result is storytelling at its bestsophisticated, amusing, and driven by the kind of insight that only a true insider can possess. The Big Bing provides a moles-eye-view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Following an introduction to the fictional person that is Stanley Bing, this book plunges into focused sections that explore the range of subjects, issues, questions, concerns and dietary suggestions. This book provides a Bing's-eye view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060529574
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Bing has lived the last two decades in the belly of the beast, climbing the ladder at one of the great multi-national corporations of the cosmos, while living in the real world of family, friends and consumable goods. His no-punches-pulled insights are always riotously funny, but its his ability to motivate that sets him apart from all the other thumbsuckers who empty out the contents of their brains in the pages of disposable media. Following a brief introduction to the wondrous creation that is Stanley Bing, the book plunges the reader into tightly focused sections that explore the vast range of subjects, issues, questions, concerns, and dietary suggestions that have characterized Bings thinking since 1984, when he unveiled his corporate strategy column in the pages of Esquire. The Big Bing provides a Bings-eye view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Following an introduction to the fictional person that is Stanley Bing, this book plunges into focused sections that explore the range of subjects, issues, questions, concerns and dietary suggestions. This book provides a Bing's-eye view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780060529574
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