How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A Survival Guide to the New Workplace - Paperback

by Stanley Bing (Author)

"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.

It's not about working harder. It's about mastering the system.

• Delegation as an Art Form: Learn to pass along work with such finesse that you get all the credit without lifting a finger. It's the foundational Executrick.
• The Art of Absence: Master your BlackBerry, email, and other digital tools to create a powerful, engaged presence--from the golf course, the beach, or your couch.
• Weaponized Meetings and Meals: Turn endless meetings and lavish expense-account lunches from time-sinks into strategic tools for avoiding actual labor.
• Workplace Satire with a Purpose: A savagely funny look at corporate culture that doubles as a practical guide to succeeding in business without really trying.

Front Jacket

If business is a hamster wheel, what kind of hamster do you want to be? The one who runs all day long, huffing and puffing to keep things turning? Or the sleek and happy rodent who works in the corner office down the hall? Stanley Bing has seen the way the big furballs operate in good times and bad.

Core skills taught in this book:

Delegation
Telling people what to do and having them do it.

Absence
Operating from the digital vacuum.

Abuse of status
It can be done.

Decisiveness
Even when confused.

Engagement
But only when necessary.

Step off the wheel.
Grab this book.
And relax.

Back Jacket

If business is a hamster wheel, what kind of hamster do you want to be? The one who runs all day long, huffing and puffing to keep things turning? Or the sleek and happy rodent who works in the corner office down the hall? Stanley Bing has seen the way the big furballs operate in good times and bad.

Core skills taught in this book:

Delegation
Telling people what to do and having them do it.

Absence
Operating from the digital vacuum.

Abuse of status
It can be done.

Decisiveness
Even when confused.

Engagement
But only when necessary.

Step off the wheel.
Grab this book.
And relax.