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Title: Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0-06-018861-8 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What the work world really needs.
Comment: If you read Stanley Bing's regular column in Fortune magazine, you know what a wonderful way he has of capturing the idiosyncracies of the corporate world, and letting those of us who don't occupy a corner office in on the real reality of our daily lives.
No doubt Bing is funny, and this book will sometimes have you wondering if he's really joking -- you will certainly be able to relate his humorous stories to some situation of your own. The true gift of "Throwing the Elephant" is that it offers us "corporate monks" what it is we really need -- some humor in our work lives, and the permission to laugh at the randomness of the world. And, of course, verification that the "elephants" we all serve are just as crazy sometimes as we really think they are.
But be forwarned -- this is no traditional "how to make it in business without really trying" book. Before reading, you must first have the ability not to take your position and work too seriously -- you must be able to prioritize the truly important things in life. As Bing whispers to us over the pages, that is where true wisdom and true success really come from.
Rating: 4
Summary: Elephants in life
Comment: The elephant referred to in this title of this witty and joyfully manipulative little book is your boss, the powerful but lumbering and self-involved authority figure that Fortune columnist Stanley Bing believes is comfortably ensconced in your company's corner office. Bing begins his manual on the care and feeding of these "business elephants" with the admonition that people don't get to choose their bosses; like the weather or gravity, bosses exist as laws of nature that exceed the control of the mere mortal mosquitoes that hover about them. "Throwing the Elephant" is likely to become the kind of book that people start reading because it makes them laugh and end up giving to their friends because there's so much to learn from it. While it's a little lopsided to see the boss/employee dynamic as exclusively a power-based relationship, there's still a lot of wisdom about corporate life packed into this little book, which, like the "Dilbert" cartoons, succeeds in suggesting aspects of workplace culture that almost everyone can relate to. Now, of course, someone needs to write a book for the elephants, telling them how to deal with those pesky mosquitoes who keep buzzing around them, clamoring for attention and drinking up their lifeblood. I also highly recommend another little book of wisdom titled "Open Your Mind, Open Your Life" by Taro Gold which has helped me greatly deal with the elephants in my life!
Rating: 2
Summary: A book about nothing
Comment: It must have been fun to write this book. It is much better than Mr Bing's What Would Machiavelli Do? There is more humor than knowledge in this one. Even if you are a Bing fan, I would suggest you borrow it from the library.
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Title: What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0066620112 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Big Bing : Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0060529555 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: You Look Nice Today : A Novel by Stanley Bing ISBN: 1582342806 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Lloyd: What Happened : A Novel of Business by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0375705643 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0688070736 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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