Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Stanley Bing (Author), Alan Sklar (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 17, 2008

The central question of every hard-working person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy a bottle of ninety-five-dollar Borolo without trembling. This is as true at age thirty as it is at more advanced ages. But by age forty, most of us are already thinking of exit strategies that will place us firmly off the grid for good. The question, then, is simple: How to retire while continuing to enjoy all the best things that haute-bourgeois life has to offer? The answer has been under our noses all along: Retire while still working! This might seem like a difficult proposition, but close examination of the concept reveals that there are many among us who have been exploring this boundary betwen a nice nap and the long sleep for quite some time. They are called "Senior Management," and we have a lot to learn from them.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Bing is hilarious!” (Don Imus )

“Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing.” (New York Post )

“A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.” (USA Today ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the bestselling author of What Would Machiavelli Do? Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses, and The Big Bing, as well the novels Lloyd: What Happened and You Look Nice Today. He lives in New York City and works for a gigantic multinational conglomerate. Winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a multiple finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award, Alan Sklar has narrated over 150 audiobooks, including Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier, and The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. The Dartmouth graduate's theatre credits include Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, and many modern roles. Alan has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA,Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY. For several years, he has been the spokesman for TracFone Wireless Co. and can often be seen and heard on TracFone radio and TV spots and infomercials."I am so pleased, as is my husband, to have found a narrator that holds our attention so well that we have come to compare every other narrator to him (you). So far we have found none with such a talent as yours. We very much plan to listen to as many of your works as we can find." ---Sandi King, a letter to Mr. Sklar

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,Library - Unabridged CD edition (June 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400137039
• ISBN-13: 978-1400137039
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,791,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to the naysayers!, December 6, 2008

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Sam Direct (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working (Hardcover)

I actually am in management and can tell you that Bing hits the nail on the head. In a very entertaining way, he gives great career advice. In fact, some of it helped me understand better the shannigans in my office.

This isn't going to be interesting or helpful to someone who isn't in the corporate world at the level of middle management or above.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Executricks-Real World Business, November 6, 2008

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Richard Bodey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working (Hardcover)

This is by far one of my favorite books. I think the overall tone of the book and the effective satire used in the book is amazing. What is amazing is how closely this relates to the business world and how astonishing this hits the mark. It points out the absolute craziness our current state. It also shows how new devices have enabled this "remote work environment", in any system their will be exploitation but this is a "How To Guide" of epic significance.

There are two ways to take this book. From an Entrepreneurs aspect, "Know Thy Enemy" When we look at systems and developing such systems we must learn how to reduce these loopholes. Or Do We? Drawing parallels from the 4 hour work week and the 80/20 principal, is this new work agreement really a bad thing? Wasteful time is not conducive to productivity.

Overall no matter if you are an Entrepreneur, a CEO or a simple employee, this book gives invaluable information on how "Business" really works!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Corporate America has never been so much fun!, April 9, 2009

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Dante "Dante" (CA, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working (Hardcover)

Executricks shows you how your boss gets away with not working, and teaches you how to do the same while laughing through to the end of the book.