Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working - Hardcover

Stanley Bing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061340359 ISBN 13: 9780061340352

Publisher: Collins, 2008

Synopsis

People in the high flush of a successful but sometimes frenetic business career often look with envy at those who have entered their golden years. "Ah!" they think. "To be retired!" Free to wake when you wish, to have the time to reflect on the deeper things in life, play golf or quoits, or just go fishin' in the middle of the day. The stressed-out mind boggles at the prospect, and the lip cannot help but tremble and drool. At the same time, you may not be emotionally-or financially-ready to hang it all up. Which is why, whether you're a withered graybeard or a teeny young future hotshot in leather jodhpurs, you need Stanley Bing's global positioning system for a sane and pleasantly successful life: "Executricks, or How to Retire While You're Still Working." Bing is the ultimate corporate insider, one who has attained nosebleed altitude and worked long and hard enough to lose his desire to work long and hard enough. Over time, he has watched the power players who have made their jobs into a waking festival of indolence and fun, and gleaned a vast range of executricks they have developed over the years, based around several core concepts: Delegation, or getting other people to do the stuff you don't want to Absence, or the ability to get "work" done while not being physically on the scene Abuse of status Acting visionary when confused Intense engagement (used only in crisis) A wellspring of executricks flow from these simple precepts, including: The use of the cell phone and BlackBerry to establish a permanent state of simultaneous Omniscience and Not-Presence Roping off mealtimes as zones of defensible entitlement Travel as an alternative to work The art of the nap Golf-the ultimate dodge Philanthropy and social activism, a pleasant parallel universe "Executricks" is the most precious of resources for those who work hard but would rather be hardly working: a secret handbook that lays bare the stratagems of those who have already ascended to the pinnacles of power. N

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Review:

"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"

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061340359
• ISBN 13: 9780061340352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208