What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness
Author: Stanley Bing
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ISBN: 0066620112
Publisher: HarperBusiness (01 January, 2000)
Sales Rank: 95,676
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 3 out of 5
A marginally clever parody of a tired theme.
Back in the early 90's, the world was presented with LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF ATTILA THE HUN, which, as I recall, was a book with some serious points to make that happened to have a cute title. WHAT WOULD MACHIAVELLI DO?, also with a cute title, is apparently a parody of the former volume and others of the same ilk. At least I hope it's a parody. The author, Stanley Bing, can't be serious, can he? The book is a do-it-yourself guide to getting ahead by being the most paranoid, meanest, most selfish, most amoral, most secretive, greediest, most narcissistic, and most treacherous SOB on the block.Assuming this is a parody, it's written with a modicum of cleverness and twisted humor, eminently suitable for those moments dedicated to light reading in the bathroom. Bing's brief reference to the virtue of patience is typical:
"You know ... I could go on about this but screw it. Patience is for pussies. We don't need to spend a lot of time on this concept, do we? Good. Let's move on."
And, concerning rudeness:
"Rudeness: Watch people reel back when you put your hand over their faces and push real hard."
Okey-dokey. How about these for your library: NERO'S FIRESIDE CHAT COLLECTION, or UNCLE JOE STALIN'S FOLKSY ADVICE ON RURAL IMPROVEMENT, or, my personal favorite, TIPS FROM THE REICHSKANZLER ON POLITICAL CORRECTNESS by A. Hitler.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Yeah, Right
A wonderful broadside against Western Civilization as we know it today. Is it essential to your corporate survival to be completely demented at the outset of your career, or do you only become more and more demented the higher you rise in your organization? Clearly Stanley Bing, tongue in cheek, is praying to the gods for some rescuse from our current corporate structures(s. Do NOT do what he recommends in this book. Instead, have a good a laugh at all of human kind. And let's all of us figure out some alternatives to this madness.
Rating: 1 out of 5
very Lame Book
I have read 3 books for the Prince, this is the wrost book ever.
This Book doesn't teach you anything other than being mad
It's written in street language with lots Fwords which makes me think that a 16 years old wrote that book.
The name is catchy, but it doesn't have any relations to the Niccolo Machiavelli's teachings, all he talks about is how rich
poeple treat the lower class, by being rude or get angry every now and then.
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