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Rome, Inc: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation Audiobook
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New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world's first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation.
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"Fusing the seemingly polar opposite studies of ancient history and modern business, this is an amazingly engrossing look at what the ancient civilization can teach us about how to succeed and what makes enterprises fail."
— Cameron (5 out of 5 stars)
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scott, 9/3/2016
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" I finished this one last week. Very much like Barbarians to Bureaucrats but just about Rome. Makes some humorous, but inciteful comparisons to Caesars and CEOs of today, good book. "
— Lyn, 9/24/2013 -
" great look at corporate american and its similarities to the roman empire. "
— Linda, 8/12/2013 -
" That's it. From the tittle, you know that Stanley bing is funny. Summarized, you will learn a nugget of two of information but you will have he'll of a good laugh with this satirical style, "
— Marcus, 5/9/2013 -
" An optional-read book on managing companies for knowledge workers, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs. "
— Lori, 10/1/2012 -
" Sardonic, funny. Wonderful comparisons between the scoundrels, thieves, dictators, et al., who made Rome and the corporate founders, raiders, managers, et al., who made our corporate culture what it is today. "
— Mary, 7/16/2012
About Stanley Bing
Stanley Bing has written a column for Fortune magazine for more than ten years and is 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.
About Kerin McCue
Kerin McCue is an audiobook narrator whose readings include Charles Wheelan’s Naked Economics, Larry LcMurtry’s Horseman, Pass By, Stanley Bing’s Rome, Inc, and Tom Bissell’s The Father of All Things.