Books by Stanley Bing and Complete Book Reviews

Marian Keyes, Author, Mike Albo, Author, Stanley Bing, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-06-083811-9
While everyone has his or her own holiday nightmare-the overcooked turkey, the undercooked ham, the Santa who drank too much, the worst gift given or received-we still love hearing about other people's disasters. Mice eating up the lovingly home-bake
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Stanley Bing, Author . Harper Business $20.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-018861-0
In a spoof of just about every career advice and management-by-metaphor book ever created, Bing (What Would Machiavelli Do?) delivers a Zen-like guide to managing your boss. The premise? Here's what Buddha would tell you if he were your personal
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Stanley Bing, Author . HarperBusiness $24.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-052955-0
Twenty years of columns by business humorist Bing (Throwing the Elephant; What Would Machiavelli Do?) from Fortune and Esquire add up to a very funny look at the contemporary executive. The media exec/writer organizes his collected works into a...
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Stanley Bing, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-1-58234-280-1
With this sardonic, entertaining legal thriller about a discrimination suit brought against a high-level corporate executive by his administrative assistant, Fortune columnist Bing tells a story of sexual harassment that's not about sex. Robert
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Stanley Bing, Author . Norton $23.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-393-06026-3
Fortune columnist Bing (Sun-Tzu Was a Sissy ) condenses the 1,200-year history of Rome into a slim, wildly entertaining satire for businessmen, particularly those who happen to be fans of HBO's Rome . Irreverent without ever slipping into Dave...
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Stanley Bing, Author . HarperCollins $19.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-06-134035-2
In this salty satire of a business guide, Bing (What Would Machiavelli Do? ) invites “anyone with a job and a desire to shirk it” into his program of retiring while still on the job. “I'm scared to retire. That way lies...
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Stanley Bing, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-06-073479-4
There's an element of bullshit in all jobs, including his own, but bestselling author Bing (Sun Tzu was a Sissy) has taken a wickedly satiric approach and ranked the BS quotient in jobs both common and obscure that require little effort but pay well.
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Stanley Bing, Author Crown Publishers $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-517-70349-6
In his first novel, Bing, columnist for Fortune and author of Crazy Bosses and Biz Words, offers a light satire of business life packed with glimpses, both funny and appalling, into the mentality of six-figure executives among whom every word, smile,
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Stanley Bing. Simon & Schuster, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5011-1983-5
Business writer Bing (The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts) makes his first foray into speculative fiction with a clever and sly satire of a future that feels like it’s lurking just around the corner, shot...
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Stanley Bing. Harper Business, $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-199853-9
Fortune columnist Bing (Executricks) offers a hilarious curriculum for educating would-be businesspeople on the ins and outs of the workplace. Dismissing the need for a higher degree from a reputable academic institution, Bing observes that "a...
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Stanley Bing, Author, Stanley Bing, Read by , read by the author. HarperAudio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-123551-1
Fortune columnist Stanley Bing offers listeners a two-for-one audio package that combines the newly updated edition of Crazy Bosses with his recent title Sun Tzu Was a Sissy . In Crazy Bosses , Bing sketches five prototypes of dysfunctional...
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