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    The Big Bing
    The Big Bing
    The Big Bing
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    The Big Bing

    Written by Stanley Bing

    Narrated by Stanley Bing

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 27, 2004
    ISBN9780060747800
    The Big Bing
    Author

    Stanley Bing

    Stanley Bing, the alter ego of Gil Schwartz (1951–2020), was 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, The Big Bing, and The Curriculum, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life. He was a top CBS communications executive whose identity was one of the worst-kept secrets in business.

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      This is not my favorite Stanley Bing book becuase its just a collection of his articles. While he puts them together so that they are relevant this still does not read well to me. Yet another example of an author taking something made for a daily newspaper and gathering it together to make into a book. Somehow the transition does not work or maybe I need to just read one article a day with a cup of coffee rather than trying to read it like a normla book.