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- Publisher: Collins (2003)
- ASIN: B000OEO7VU
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and 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, and The Big Bing, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened and You Look Nice Today. 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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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fragments of Brilliance,
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This review is from: The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe (Hardcover)
I had high expectations for this book after reading "Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up" and "What would Machiavelli Do?". Bing's black humour brought some relief to the entirely too serious business of business. After all, we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves, right?This book is a collection of snippets on a wide variety of business experiences written between the late eighties and the present day. Given that there is no explicit theme for this book (apart from the madness of business and the people within it), I struggled to finish it. Although some of the material provides 'applied learning' that will be universally relevant and recognisable, frankly chunks of it just aren't that amusing. Weird - yes, ironic - yes, funny - sorry, no.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Bing is the thinking man's Dilbert,
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This review is from: The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe (Hardcover)
This book was hysterical. Anyone who has ever worked in an office or a giant corporation will identify with the situations and the characters he so vividly brings to life. Plus, he has the best made up last names I've ever come across, but the funny thing is you know exactly who he's talking about. I may not fly with the chairman on the corporate jet, but I relate to most everything he writes about, and I laughed the entire time reading. Bing is the thinking man's Dilbert.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Bing collection,
This review is from: The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe (Paperback)
A compilation of pieces from Esquire and Fortune over the past twenty years or so is what we have here. Kind of a mixed bag, at times very funny, others not so. I found myself wanting some of the articles to go on longer.
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New York, Los Angeles, Town Car, Wall Street, Latte Break, Other Thing, World Trade Center, Barry Diller, Lizzie Grubman, Steve Case, Super Bowl, Larry Blatt, New Orleans, United States, Business Week, Four Seasons Hotel, Jack Welch, Martha Stewart, World Series, Caesars Palace, Century City, Gerard Finneran, Morgan Stanley, New Jersey, Political Crypt New!
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