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May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0060731575
EAN: 9780060731571
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Since the latter part of the century just past, Stanley
Bing has been exploring the relationship between authority
and madness. In one bestselling book after another,
reporting from his hot-seat as an insider in a
world-renowned multinational corporation, he has tried to
understand the inner workings of those who lead us and to
inquire why they seem to be powered, much of the time, by
demons that make them obnoxious and dangerous, even to
themselves. In What Would Machiavelli Do?,
Bing looked at the issue of why mean people do better than
nice people, and found that in their particular form of
insanity lay incredible power. In Throwing the Elephant:
Zen and the Art of Managing Up, he offered a spiritual
path toward managing the unruly executive beast. And in
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, he taught us how to become one
of them, and wage war on the playing field that ends in a
dream home in Cabo. Now he returns to his roots to offer the
last word on the entity that shapes our lives and stomps
through—and on—our dreams: The Crazy Boss. Students
of Bing—and there are many, secreted inside tortured
organizations, yearning for blunt instruments with which to
fight—will note that he has walked this ground before,
looking for answers. In 1992, he published the first edition
of Crazy Bosses, which was fine, as far as it went.
Now, some 15 years and several dozen insane bosses later, he
has updated and rethought much of the work. Back in the last
century, Bing was a small, trembling creature, looking up at
those who made his life miserable and analyzing the mental
illness that gave them their power. Today, while still
trembling much of the time, he is in fact one of those
people his prior work has warned us against. His own
hard-won wisdom and now institutionalized dementia make this
new edition completely fresh and indispensable to anyone who
works for somebody else or lives with somebody else, or
would like to. In short, Bing is back on his home
turf in this funny, true, and essential book, peering with
his keen and frosty eye at the crazy boss in all his guises:
the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp, and the
self-destructive Disaster Hunter. If you loved the original,
classic Crazy Bosses, you'll be thrilled to plunge
back into the new, refurbished pool. If you are new to the
book, strap yourself in: it's going to be a crazy ride.
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