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Title: What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0-06-662011-2 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (54 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Buy this book to beware !
Comment: Confession - I'm a fan of Bing's column in Fortune.
Bing brings his style of humour to bear on all those behaviours which we've heard or seen megalomaniacs use, but hope we never get to experience them first hand, and of course we would never dream of applying them ourselves.
So, this isn't a book to use to learn new torture techniques, but to learn to identify those traits in others and be aware (or should that be 'beware'?).
Of the 45 or so Chapters, here is a selection of my favourites, giving excellent personal examples, naming names :
Responding to the question "What would Machiavelli do? He would ......"
- be a paranoid freak
- always be at war
- fire his own mother
- respond poorly to criticism
- have no conscience to speak of
- scream at people a lot
- establish and maintain a psychotic level of control
and lastly
- not be a jerk
Read the book to find the famous names who fit these profiles!
Rating: 1
Summary: What day does your trash man come?
Comment: If you bought this book already don't forget to put it out with the rest of your junk.
If you have not - Don't & save your money
It isn't funny or informative.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting
Comment: The author does a nice job of pulling together some concepts
of Machiavelli, who wrote about how a Prince could keep alive
and in power, while stepping over the dead bodies of his opponents, with some modern-day business leaders. He liberally
quotes from "leaders" who obviously live by the selfish,
self-aggrandizing concept of "me-me-me," and he puts those
concepts together in a very intearesting, readable way.
Some of the business and entertainment "leaders" quoted are so
self-absorbed, working with no concept of public good, or even
public interest, the reader has to wonder at times whether author Bing is being serious or trying to make his point with
satire. So the reader can wonder while reading some interesting
quotes and concepts for getting ahead in the modern business
world.
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Title: Throwing the Elephant : Zen and the Art of Managing Up by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0060934220 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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 by Stanley Bing ISBN: 0375705643 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Machiavelli on Modern Leadership : Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today As Five Centuries Ago by Michael A. Ledeen ISBN: 031220471X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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