A tongue-in-cheek guide to enjoying retirement while retaining the benefits of a satisfying business career shares a treasury of secrets, shortcuts, and strategies for affording small luxuries and experiencing times of relaxation while remaining gainfully employed at smaller-wage jobs. By the author of Throwing the Elephant. 50,000 first printing.
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"Bing is hilarious!" -- Don Imus
"A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments."--USA Today
"Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing."--New York Post
"Bing is hilarious!"--Don Imus
Bing is hilarious! --Don Imus"
A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments. --USA Today"
Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing. --New York Post"
If business is a hamster wheel, what kind of hamster do you want to be? The one who runs all day long, huffing and puffing to keep things turning? Or the sleek and happy rodent who works in the corner office down the hall? Stanley Bing has seen the way the big furballs operate in good times and bad.
Core skills taught in this book:
Delegation
Telling people what to do and having them do it.
Absence
Operating from the digital vacuum.
Abuse of status
It can be done.
Decisiveness
Even when confused.
Engagement
But only when necessary.
Step off the wheel.
Grab this book.
And relax.
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