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Or How to Retire While You're Still Working
Collins
June 2008
On Sale: June 1, 2008
208 pages
ISBN: 0061340359
EAN: 9780061340352
Hardcover
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Self-Help
People in the high flush of a successful but sometimes
frenetic business career often look with envy at those who
have entered their golden years. Ah! they think.
To be retired! Free to wake when you wish, to have
the time to reflect on the deeper things in life, play golf
or quoits, or just go fishin' in the middle of the day. The
stressed-out mind boggles at the prospect, and the lip
cannot help but tremble and drool. At the same
time, you may not be emotionally–or financially–ready to
hang it all up. Which is why, whether you're a withered
graybeard or a teeny young future hotshot in leather
jodhpurs, you need Stanley Bing's global positioning system
for a sane and pleasantly successful life: Executricks,
or How to Retire While You're Still Working.
Bing is the ultimate corporate insider, one who has attained
nosebleed altitude and worked long and hard enough to lose
his desire to work long and hard enough. Over time, he has
watched the power players who have made their jobs into a
waking festival of indolence and fun, and gleaned a vast
range of executricks they have developed over the years,
based around several core concepts:
- Delegation, or getting other people to do the stuff you
don't want to
- Absence, or the ability to get "work"
done while not being physically on the scene
- Abuse
of status
- Acting visionary when confused
- Intense engagement (used only in crisis)
A wellspring of executricks flow from these simple precepts,
including: - The use of the cell phone and
BlackBerry to establish a permanent state of simultaneous
Omniscience and Not-Presence
- Roping off mealtimes
as zones of defensible entitlement
- Travel as an
alternative to work
- The art of the nap
- Golf–the ultimate dodge
- Philanthropy and
social activism, a pleasant parallel universe
Executricks is the most precious of resources for
those who work hard but would rather be hardly working: a
secret handbook that lays bare the stratagems of those who
have already ascended to the pinnacles of power. No office,
home, or backpack should be without a dog-eared copy. Early
adopters earn extra points.
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