The definitive collection of thoughts, assaults, and hilarious observations from America’s premier business humorist and bestselling author of Throwing the Elephant and What Would Machiavelli Do?
The Big Bing will be a mandatory addition to the library of everyone who works for a living, or would like to. For nearly 20 years, Stanley Bing’s funny, wise, pleasantly mean-spirited, and at times even useful columns have delighted readers in the pages of Esquire, Fortune and a variety of other national publications.
Bing has lived the last two decades inside the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos. And he has seen it all: the high body count after many a gruesome deal, the machine that grinds up the bones of those who stood in its way, the birth and death of executive dinosaurs (and he’s had quite a few lunches with some of them, too). The result is storytelling at its best—sophisticated, amusing, and driven by the kind of insight that only a true insider can possess.
The Big Bing provides a mole’s-eye-view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters.
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“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
“The Big Bing may be the funniest business book ever written.”
— Don Imus“The Big Bing, recycles two decades of artful and acid Fortune and Esquire columns into a coherent view of business as usual.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review“Twenty years of columns by business humorist Bing from Fortune and Esquire add up to a very funny look at the contemporary executive.”
— Publishers Weekly" mildly entertaining and few nuggets of info, seems to be a collection of columns. Probably won't finish it. "
— valpal, 4/18/2012" Hey, another book that I was led to through a finance magazine. Bing's earlier writing isn't as funny as his later stuff. Some things are readily applicable to my life, some are not. "
— Evelyn, 11/18/2011" An optional-read book in finding humor in the workplace. "
— Lori, 12/16/2010" mildly entertaining and few nuggets of info, seems to be a collection of columns. Probably won't finish it. <br/> "
— valpal, 10/4/2010" Hey, another book that I was led to through a finance magazine. Bing's earlier writing isn't as funny as his later stuff. Some things are readily applicable to my life, some are not. "
— Apathy, 6/27/2010Stanley 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.