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Summary: Good Cold Street Sense
Review: This book is rather crude when it comes to professional advice,however in my dealings with the real world,I have found many of the things recommended to be true! This book highlights the things that really are true about real world people and their sometimes ruthless ways. Its makes for good reading,however not all practices described in here will go over good in all situations. Its for the nitty gritty type person who wants to see the cold, hard side of the human motivation to be number one!
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Summary: Witty, refreshing and relevant!
Review: Stanley Bing has done it again -- this clever and imaginative book is essential for making it in today's frenzied business world. Bing's humor and style make for fun reading, while the parallels to Machiavelli's world are an interesting lesson for us all. The charts and graphs are especially novel. A great gift for colleagues (but only if you want to reveal the secrets!)
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Summary: A satire or an instruction book?
Review: This is a five-star book if you're interested in the decadence and peril of corporate culture, or if you like Stanley Bing. It's a SIX STAR book if you work for the real-life Bing and have learned anything at all from its pages."What Would Machiavelli Do" is both a satire of America's sadistic corporate culture AND an instruction book on how to be a ruthless, self-indulgent ladder-climber. It's very funny, except when you think too much about it. Bing acknowledges and accepts--even celebrates--the twisted idiosyncrasies of life among the suits; stuff that would make any blue collar worker or crunchy granola idealist puke. But it's all true, and that's the sad part. Bing sees it all for how strange it is, and it's his perception that enables him to both make fun of the system while succeeding in it. It's a strange contradiction. It's as if business were a mudhole and Bing glides along easily without ever getting dirty because he has a profound understanding of mud. Anyway, I liked it. The book put in writing a lot of what I thought about the business world, and a lot that nobody in upper management would ever admit to.
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Summary: Contrary to mainstream business thought
Review: Read this book to balance the plethora of "feel good" business books out there. This one gets to the bottom line of exactly why succesful people become successful, and it's not the way you may think! It is an easy read, riddled with anecdotes that hit right at the heart of the matter. I found it cynical, but also delightful and refreshing in places. It's hard to object to some of these tactics when you find them producing results over and over. You will definitely not find pablum here, but we don't always need a soft approach with people.
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Summary: What day does your trash man come?
Review: 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.
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Summary: What day does your trash man come?
Review: 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.
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Summary: Badly Written.
Review: Stanley Bing seems to be successful businessman giving hard-nosed, realistic advise about the business world, but one thing he is not is a writer. In fact, the writing is quite poor in this book and would be an insult to anyone with a high school reading level. On top of that, Mr. Bing quotes mass murders like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to "prove" his point even more.
Mr. Bing feels any kind of morals or ethics need to be thrown away for the sake of making money and being successful. Yes, that has happened in the past, but look what happened to those people. They either ended up in jail or died. But if you ask Mr. Bing, that still doesn't matter because they made lots of money!!
Mr. Bing, since you are such a tough guy, let me ask you a question. Have you fought in any wars?
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Summary: Oversimplifies Machiavelli, and is really a Business book
Review: This is a pretty good book for people starting out with Machiavelli. It oversimplifies stuff way to much, and you can tell Stanley Bing really hasent studied machiavelli. But it is written very easy to read, and has valid points, especially about paranoia. It is mostly a business book which i didnt know. But it can also be read as an everyday life book. There are very good quotes in it. Overall, i reccomend it for average people.
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