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Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different--if the Buddha were your personal consultant. What would the Buddha do--if he had to deal with a rampaging elephant of a boss every day? That is the premise of Stanley Bing's wickedly funny guide to finding inner peace in the face of relentlessly obnoxious, huge, and sometimes smelly bosses. Taking the concept of managing up to a new cosmic plateau, Bing urges no less than a revolution of the spirit in the American workplace, turning overwrought, oppressed, stressed-out employees into models of Zen-like powers of concentration, able to take their elephant-like bosses and grey, lumbering companies and twirl them around the little finger of their consciousness. In Bing's unique tradition of social criticism cum business self-help, Throwing the Elephant presents Four Truths (or possibly Five), a Ninefold Path, and one useful, hilarious guide to workplace sanity, success, and enlightenment that surpasses all understanding, survival.

About the Author :
Stanley Bing, the alter ego of Gil Schwartz (1951-2020), was the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 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. He was a top CBS communications executive whose identity was one of the worst-kept secrets in business. Simon Jones has been featured in nine Broadway productions, was Bridey in PBS's Brideshead Revisited, and the voice of Arthur Dent in the acclaimed Hitchhiker's Guide series. Besides The Valachi Papers, (hailed by Rudolph Giuliani as "the most important book ever written about the Mafia in America") Peter Maas is the prize-winning author of ten other books of fiction and nonfiction, including Serpico, Manhunt, In a Child's Name, China White, and Killer Spy. Philip Bosco won the Best Actor Tony Award for his role in Lend Me a Tenor. He has received several other Tony nominations and has appeared in numerous feature films.

Review :
"The ultimate guide to corporate backstabbing." -- Entertainment Weekly "A hilarious guide to succeeding in business." -- Don Imus "In his amusing book, Stanley Bing brings The Prince into the present." -- The New Yorker "With sly humor, Bing offers alternative strategies to conquering any industry provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency, and if need be, close family members." -- Time "Tongue practically punctures cheek in What Would Machiavelli Do?. . . Outrageous." -- New York Times "Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing." -- New York Post


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780060085599
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperAudio
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0060085592
  • Publisher Date: 21 Mar 2002
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 146 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 206 gr


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