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What Would Machiavelli Do?by Stanley Bing
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 10.99What Would Machiavelli Do? He would feast on other people's discord He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand, either He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control He would use other people's opinions to sell his book! more...
The Big Bingby Stanley Bing
HarperCollins US 2003; US$ 9.99After two decades in the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos, Stanley Bing has seen it all. The Big Bing provides a mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and work, in Bing's trademark funny, wise, and pleasantly mean-spirited style. A mandatory addition .. more...
Who Cut The Cheese?by Mason Brown
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 9.99Who Cut the Cheese? uses a delightful little fable to encapsulate the fundamental rule of modern American management and the new economy: "Survive change by shifting blame." The fable revolves around two malevolent rats and two spiteful "Punypeople" who find themselves trapped together in a maze, fighting over a dwindling supply of constantly moving cheese. Some characters adapt readily to this treacherous, shifting environment -- blaming the weak and overpowering the helpless. Others perish in horror, praying for death. Read this book and live! Written for all ages, the story can be understood by even the youngest reader: The "maze"is a metaphor for life, and the "cheese" is a metaphor for whatever you desire in life -- be it worldly... more...
And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsorby Larry Oakner
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 29.95Classic radio ad campaigns from the last fifty years, and how they used humor to win over audiences And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsor offers an in-depth look at some of the most successful and entertaining radio ads from the last half century, presented by advertising veteran Larry Oakner. An accompanying CD-ROM allows readers to listen to the fascinating and funny advertisements that chronicle radio history. Extensive interviews with account executives, clients, producers, and actors offer a unique perspective on the development of humorous radio advertising over the years and what it takes to create a memorable and effective campaign. And Now a Few Laughs from Our Sponsor shows advertising professionals how to maximize just sixty seconds... more...
Sun Tzu Was a Sissyby Stanley Bing
HarperCollins 2004; US$ 10.99We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things arent getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people arent any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ran around in big furs killing people in unfriendly acquisitions. For thousands of years, people have been reading the writings of the deeply wise, but also extremely dead Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, who was perhaps the first to look on the waging of war as a strategic art that could be taught to people who wished to be warlords and other kinds of senior managers. Every other book on the Art of War bows low to Sun Tzu. Were going to tell him to get lost and inform our readers how real war is currently conducted on the battlefield... more...
The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshitby Lois Beckwith
Broadway 2006; US$ 8.99This caustically funny Webster’s of the workplace cuts to the true meaning of the inane argot spouted in cubicles and conference rooms across the land. At a price even an intern can afford and in a handy paperback format that won’t weigh down your messenger bag or briefcase, The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit is a hilarious guide to the smoke-screen terms and passive-aggressive phrases we traffic in every day. Each entry begins with a straight definition followed by a series of alternative meanings that are, of course, what is really meant. Take, for example, the widely used, seemingly innocuous term brainstorming: 1. to generate ideas as a group in an accepting environment and in a free-form manner 2. a supposedly relaxed... more...
Dave Barry's Money Secretsby Dave Barry
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 9.99Did you ever wish that you really understood money? Well, Dave Barry wishes that he did, too. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing this book. In it, Dave explores (as only he can) such topics as: • How the U.S. economy works, including the often overlooked role of Adam Sandler • Why it is not a good idea to use squirrels for money • Strategies that will give you the confidence you need to try for a good job, even though you are—let’s be honest—a no-talent loser • How corporate executives, simply by walking into their offices, immediately become much stupider • An absolutely foolproof system for making money in the stock market, requiring only a little effort (and access to time travel)... more...
Laugh and Learnby Doni Tamblyn
AMACOM 2002; US$ 25.00A stand-up comic used her day job teaching traffic school to launch a training career. The results are nothing to laugh at! more...
Noonavilleby Stephen Bolton
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2006; US$ 14.99A parallel universe in cartoons for connoisseurs of day-glo surrealism. Noonaville is the cartoon sensation from the Sunday Times Style Magazine, each week it transports Style readers to a quirky alternative world somewhere between Twin Peaks, Royston Vasey and Brookside Close. In the book, the weirdness can be relived again and again with approximately 160 cartoons on themes of love, work, death, fashion and fun, plus a running narrative linking all the sections. Noonaville is set to be the humour book that people read under their desks, in front of the telly, in their lunch breaks & before they go to bed. It is bright, fun and funny and has cult status written all over it. more...
Fired!by Annabelle Gurwitch; Bill Maher; Felicity Huffman; Bob Saget; Robert Reich
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 9.99If you've ever been fired, you're in good company. That's what actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch discovered when she was fired by her idol Woody Allen ("You look retarded"). She confided her tale of woe to her friend Felicity Huffman, who made Annabelle laugh with her own stories. Annabelle realized that there was a world of people out there waiting to laugh at the experience that virtually everyone shares, and she began to collect stories of being fired from friends and colleagues. Soon she was contributing regular "Fired!" segments to Day to Day on NPR and gathering friends to appear with her in sold-out performances of Fired! in Los Angeles and New York. Fired! , her documentary film inspired by these stories, comes out in 2006.... more...