Overview

For more than twenty years, Stanley Bing has peerlessly explained corporate culture and strategy with wit and insight. Now he brings us this engaging and instructive book of white-collar fables that have charmed generations of businesspeople since Greece was glorious and Rome was grand, brilliant gems of wisdom flowing from the pen of the mysterious, legendary author known throughout the ancient corporate world by a single name: Bingsop. Bingsop's Fables is animated by a cast of archetypal characters that are as iconic and representative of human nature as were the jackdaw, the dull, the snake, the hare, the lion, the horse, and all the rest of the birds and beasts that populated the stories of that other fabulist, Aesop. The Stupid Investor, the Miserable Misery Mogul, the Ill-Tempered PR Person, and the Potentially Generous CEO-each struts and frets his hour upon the stage and, in the end, presents us with a moral that rings so true it would hurt if we were not also laughing. Festooned with provocative, witty illustrations by New Yorker artist Steve Brodner, this lean, muscular edition will equally be at home on the shelves of aspiring hedge fund managers hoping to kill their elders as on the credenzas of those beleaguered executives who hear the next generation coming up fast from behind. No business library should be considered complete without it.

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Reviews

A gift that keeps on giving, offering much-needed (and funny!) perspective. --Elle A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace. --Neil Cavuto, Fox News An excellent anti-Christmas present for any curmudgeon. --Ottawa Citizen Bing is hilarious! --Don Imus A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments. --USA Today Bing delivers his works smoothly, projecting tones of deadpan sarcasm and animated mockery befitting the often irreverent content.--Publishers Weekly Comical, spot-on. . . The stories are as different and as funny as their authors, and the collection is a real holiday treat. --BookPage

"""A gift that keeps on giving, offering much-needed (and funny!) perspective.""--Elle ""A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace.""--Neil Cavuto, Fox News ""An excellent anti-Christmas present for any curmudgeon.""--Ottawa Citizen ""Bing is hilarious!""--Don Imus ""A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.""--USA Today ""Bing delivers his works smoothly, projecting tones of deadpan sarcasm and animated mockery befitting the often irreverent content.--Publishers Weekly ""Comical, spot-on. . . The stories are as different and as funny as their authors, and the collection is a real holiday treat.""--BookPage"

Author Information

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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