Bingsop's Fables: Little Morals for Big Business - Hardcover

Bing, Stanley; Brodner, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061998524 ISBN 13: 9780061998522

Publisher: Harper Business, 2011

Synopsis

“Amasterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.”—USA Today
 
“Bingdelivers his works smoothly, projecting tones of deadpan sarcasm and animatedmockery befitting the often irreverent content.” —Publishers Weekly
 
From celebrated business writer and Fortune columnist Stanley Bing, thebestselling author of What Would Machiavelli Do?, ThrowingThe Elephant,Sun Tzu is a Sissy, and more, comes a collection of playful fables poking funat corporate archetypes while imparting useful and humorous lessons for anyonestriving to make it big in big business. Illustrated throughout by New Yorker artist Steve Brodner, Bingsop’s Fables isthe perfect addition to any executive bookshelf in need of a little humor—and alot of excellent advice.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For more than twenty years, Stanley Bing has peerlessly explained corporate culture and strategy with wit and insight. Now he brings us this engaging and instructive book of white-collar fables that have charmed generations of businesspeople since Greece was glorious and Rome was grand, brilliant gems of wisdom flowing from the pen of the mysterious, legendary author known throughout the ancient corporate world by a single name: Bingsop.

Bingsop's Fables is animated by a cast of archetypal characters that are as iconic and representative of human nature as were the jackdaw, the dull, the snake, the hare, the lion, the horse, and all the rest of the birds and beasts that populated the stories of that other fabulist, Aesop. The Stupid Investor, the Miserable Misery Mogul, the Ill-Tempered PR Person, and the Potentially Generous CEO—each struts and frets his hour upon the stage and, in the end, presents us with a moral that rings so true it would hurt if we were not also laughing.

Festooned with provocative, witty illustrations by New Yorker artist Steve Brodner, this lean, muscular edition will equally be at home on the shelves of aspiring hedge fund managers hoping to kill their elders as on the credenzas of those beleaguered executives who hear the next generation coming up fast from behind. No business library should be considered complete without it.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061998524
• ISBN 13: 9780061998522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240