Throwing The Elephant: Zen And The Art Of Managing Up

two Business Classics, Or One Business Classic And His New Book, Or Two Business Books - However You Want To Describe It - Here Is Stanley Bing At His Best - Giving You The Yin And The Yang Of The Business World. If what Would Machiavelli Do? Was The Meanest Business Book In Recent History - throwing The Elephant Provides The Yang To That Yin.

the Focus Of what Would Machiavelli Do? Is On What Works And How To Get It Done. Machiavellians May Not Get To Heaven, But On Earth They Have A Significant Edge Over The Competition. The Goal Is To Learn How To Approach Problems In A Manner That Is At Once Creative, Geared Toward Achieving Financial Success, And Refreshingly Amoral.

throwing The Elephant: Zen And The Art Of Managing Up Artfully, Clearly, And Concisely Provides A Thorough Grounding In The Zen Buddhist Attitude You Will Need In Order To Move Forward And Control The People You Work For. This Book Guarantees Personal Enlightenment While...

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in A Spoof Of Just About Every Career Advice And Management-by-metaphor Book Ever Created, Bing (what Would Machiavelli Do?) Delivers A Zen-like Guide To Managing Your Boss. The Premise? Here's What Buddha Would Tell You If He Were Your Personal Career Coach. A Book Juxtaposing Faux-zen Advice With Embarrassing Corporate Situations (e.g., How To Handle A Drunken Boss) Is Almost Guaranteed To Be Funny. Bing, An Ultra-senior Officer At An Elephantine Corporation, Has Plenty Of Firsthand Anecdotes To Tell, And He Supplements Them With Stories About Some Of The Notoriously Toughest Bosses On The Planet, Like Martha Stewart And Citigroup's Sandy Weill. There Are Chapters On Critiquing Your Boss (any Bitter Pill Of Criticism One Offers An Elephant Must Be Buried Within A Vast Tub Of Cream Cheese) And Facing The Angry Elephant (when You're To Blame For Your Boss's Anger, Breathe Deeply. Breath Is Life). Despite The Amusing Anecdotes, Though, Bing's Narrative Can Become A Bit Wearying If One Reads More Than A Couple Of Chapters In One Sitting. However, If An Employee Only Breaks Out Bing's Book When The Elephant Is Having A Particularly Bad Couple Of Weeks, Enlightenment Is Certain. (mar. 25) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.