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Summary: a victim used-to-be
Review: (Excuse my poor English 'cause this is not my mother lanuage.)
I became a victim of my first bad boss last year after four years of working in the US. She posses all the characteristics of a bad boss. I am so frustrated. I seek advise from friends and family. Since none of them grow up in American or understand corp America culture, I feel very lonely and started questioning myself.
Being able to hold on for a while and suddenly this book came to my life. This book is not good 100%. I'd say 80% of it worth reading and thinking. First, I don't feel lonely anymore. Second, it helped me understand the culture.
There are two points I want to share with other reader:
1. You need to fight. If something is wrong, you need to fight. If you don't and just wait for the bad boss die someday, you will find your children live the way you lived, under a bad boss for 50% of their life time. You need to tell your boss what is right. (I did once, almost lost my job the following week. I tell her she needs to respect me like I respect her.) Does it worth it (I am risking more than just losing my job. My green card application is tied to my job)? Of course! This world will become a better place if everyday do the right thing. Start from yourself. Don't use $2000 mortgage as an excuse. You can't live like a victim or slave forever.
2.There are places better than corp America. I worked for a big Japanese company before outside of US. It's very good. You are respected as a human being. Think about try to live in other culture at your early stage of career. You will reach the conclusion of there are other ways of living a good life. Are you going to tell me Japanese work 10 hours a day? True! But they have a lot more holidays than Americans do and they are not worried about layoff.
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Summary: There Is Nobody Like Bing
Review: For anyone who has ever worked for a living; for anyone who has ever had a boss or been a boss; THE BIG BING is a must read! The collection is a quick and humerous study of human behavior in corporate America. Nobody tells this story better than Stanley Bing!
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Summary: Bing is the thinking man's Dilbert
Review: I had high expectations for this book after reading "Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up" and "What would Machiavelli Do?". Bing's black humour brought some relief to the entirely too serious business of business. After all, we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves, right?This book is a collection of snippets on a wide variety of business experiences written between the late eighties and the present day. Given that there is no explicit theme for this book (apart from the madness of business and the people within it), I struggled to finish it. Although some of the material provides 'applied learning' that will be universally relevant and recognisable, frankly chunks of it just aren't that amusing. Weird - yes, ironic - yes, funny - sorry, no.
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Summary: Fragments of Brilliance
Review: I had high expectations for this book after reading "Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up" and "What would Machiavelli Do?". Bing's black humour brought some relief to the entirely too serious business of business. After all, we all need to be able to laugh at ourselves, right? This book is a collection of snippets on a wide variety of business experiences written between the late eighties and the present day. Given that there is no explicit theme for this book (apart from the madness of business and the people within it), I struggled to finish it. Although some of the material provides 'applied learning' that will be universally relevant and recognisable, frankly chunks of it just aren't that amusing. Weird - yes, ironic - yes, funny - sorry, no.
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Summary: Bing is the thinking man's Dilbert
Review: This book was hysterical. Anyone who has ever worked in an office or a giant corporation will identify with the situations and the characters he so vividly brings to life. Plus, he has the best made up last names I've ever come across, but the funny thing is you know exactly who he's talking about. I may not fly with the chairman on the corporate jet, but I relate to most everything he writes about, and I laughed the entire time reading. Bing is the thinking man's Dilbert.
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Summary: FANTASTIC ... A MUST READ
Review: This was one of the best reads of the year, honestly. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. I took it on a six hour train ride and couldn't put it down. The collection of columns run the gamut of emotions -- most of them really, really funny, but others are eerily prescient, especially for anyone who has worked in corporate America -- and before I knew it, the train ride was over and I was still reading. Whether you're a fat-cat CEO, mid-level pencil pusher or rookie junior executive, this book has it all. Just don't try to expense it.
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