How to Relax Without Getting the Axe

A Survival Guide to the New Workplace

Description

“Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing.” – New York Post

The ultimate satirist of corporate America, bestselling author Stanley Bing (Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses) now offers an outrageous survival guide to the new workplace with How to Relax Without Getting the Axe—an eminently useful handbook that shows you how to retire on the job while still taking up (window) office space and drawing a huge salary. Succeeding in business without really trying is easy when you listen to Bing.


Learn the secrets to a truly executive lifestyle with Bing’s signature “Executricks”:


  • Artful Delegation: The core skill of all power—how to get other people to do the stuff you don’t want to do, and make sure they thank you for the opportunity.
  • Managing Meetings: Strategies for avoiding, dominating, or sleeping through the single most disruptive element to any serious executive life.
  • The Expense Account Lifestyle: How to eat big, travel well, and drink on the house by mastering the creative utilization of plastic.
  • Achieving Work-Life Balance: The ultimate goal isn’t just to survive the workplace, it’s to retire on the job while still drawing that huge salary.

About the author(s)

Stanley Bing, the alter ego of Gil Schwartz (1951–2020), was the bestselling author of Crazy BossesWhat Would Machiavelli Do?Throwing the ElephantSun Tzu Was a Sissy100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get ThemThe 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.

Reviews

“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

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