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A clever book redirecting the teachings of Sun Tzu in his classical piece on warfare "The Art of War" and using them in both career, economical, and daily life rise.
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Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
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We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things aren't getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people aren't any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ran around in big furs killing people in unfriendly acquisitions. For thousands of years, people have been reading the writings of the deeply wise, but also extremely dead Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, who was perhaps the first to look on the waging of war as a strategic art that could be taught to people who wished to be warlords and other kinds of senior managers. In a nutshell, Sun Tzu taught that readiness is all, that knowledge of oneself and the enemy was the foundation of strength and that those who fight best are those who are prepared and wise enough not to fight at all. Unfortunately, in the current day, this approach is pretty much horse hockey, a fact that has not been recognized by the bloated, tree-hugging Sun Tzu industry, which churns out mushy-gushy pseudo-philosophy for business school types who want to make war and keep their hands clean. Sun Tzu was a Sissy will transcend all those efforts and teach the reader how to make war, win and enjoy the plunder in the real world, where those who do not kick, gouge and grab are left behind at the table to pay the tab. Students of Bing will be taught how to plan and execute battles that hurt other people a lot, and advance their flags and those of their friends, if possible. All military strategies will be explored, from mustering, equipping, organizing, plotting, scheming, rampaging, squashing and reaping spoils. Every other book on the Art of War bows low to Sun Tzu. We're going to tell him to get lost and inform our readers how real war is currently conducted on the battlefield of life.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,2004
This edition
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240 pages, Paperback
- Published
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April 11, 2006 by HarperBusiness
- ISBN
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9780060734787
- ASIN
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B001PO65JU
- Language
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English
About the author
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Gil Schwartz, known by his pen name Stanley Bing, was an American business humorist and novelist. He wrote a column for Fortune magazine for more than twenty years after a decade at Esquire magazine. He was the author of thirteen books, including What Would Machiavelli Do? and The Curriculum, a satirical textbook for a business school that also offers lessons on the web. Schwartz was senior executive vice president of corporate communications and Chief Communications Officer for CBS.
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pretty fun read I keep it at my desk at work :)
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Not as funny as I had hoped. I laughed in a few places, and I found that the book read true based on my limited experience with this level of the business world. There was enough meat in the book to discuss with allies in the workplace.
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Not as funny as I had hoped. The wit was too dry, even for me.
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Review: Sue Tzu Was A Sissy by Stanley Bing.
I guess this book could be taken as humorous or appalling or perhaps a little of both. Bing uses the business sector as his prodigy messenger to unleash his comments and opinions into a military style context. I know it 19s supposed to be humorous and a lot of it was but was it done properly. There were chapters on the adversarial qualities of short and tall people and fat and skinny people among other issues although like all humor, someone somewhere will take offence. I 19m one who doesn 19t take offence but you never know 26.
Stanley Bing supplied plenty of puns and dark humor scattered throughout the book. I believe anyone taking this book, attempting to use some of the context for strategy in their business might want to think twice. If you have acquaintances and happy co-workers you might have just shone them the door 26..
I feel this book was written for the intent of pleasure and some serious fun poked at modern business methods with an occasional jab by a justified prod straight to anyone who 19s trying to achieve climbing the ladder to the top. I guess anyone can say it was written in a moment of harmony to be read by all walks of adventure 26.. Life is a battle 26..
I guess this book could be taken as humorous or appalling or perhaps a little of both. Bing uses the business sector as his prodigy messenger to unleash his comments and opinions into a military style context. I know it 19s supposed to be humorous and a lot of it was but was it done properly. There were chapters on the adversarial qualities of short and tall people and fat and skinny people among other issues although like all humor, someone somewhere will take offence. I 19m one who doesn 19t take offence but you never know 26.
Stanley Bing supplied plenty of puns and dark humor scattered throughout the book. I believe anyone taking this book, attempting to use some of the context for strategy in their business might want to think twice. If you have acquaintances and happy co-workers you might have just shone them the door 26..
I feel this book was written for the intent of pleasure and some serious fun poked at modern business methods with an occasional jab by a justified prod straight to anyone who 19s trying to achieve climbing the ladder to the top. I guess anyone can say it was written in a moment of harmony to be read by all walks of adventure 26.. Life is a battle 26..
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This book felt like a parody of itself, but not in a “so bad it’s good” way. This is more “so bad it’s surpassed bad-but-good and is full-on cringe.”
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Dated and cute, but not worth a read.
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I a word, "hilarious". Written by one of my favorite columnists.
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