How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (With a New Introduction by Stanley Bing)

by Shepherd Mead, Stanley Bing (Introduction)

Overview

From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know to land the corner office:

· How to make money

· How to make more money

· How to choose the right company (one big enough so that nobody knows exactly what anyone else is doing)

· How to cultivate the appearance of extreme busyness through strategic desk management

· How to delegate responsibility (have plenty of assistants!)

First published in 1952, this guide inspired the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, which returns to Broadway in 2011 in a production that stars Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette. Updated with a brilliant new introduction by the king of business satire, Stanley Bing, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is essential reading for the ambitious and the lazy alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451627091
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Edition description:	Media Tie-In
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Though some people are dogged by failure, Shepherd Mead was dogged by success. At 22, the quiet Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University left his native St. Louis for New York and joined the mail room of a large corporation—as does J. Pierrepont Finch, the leading character (who is by now a sort of folk hero) in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.



Like Finch, Mead rose to the top. It was, in fact, while he was a Vice President, inhabiting a huge office with four windows, that he wrote How to Succeed in Business. It remained 12 weeks on the best seller list and was followed by several novels on big business.



In 1957, Shepherd Mead vacationed with his family in Europe and decided to remain there to live. Meanwhile, back home, Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser were concocting from How to Succeed in Business the Broadway musical comedy success that went on to win the Pulitzer, the New York Drama Critics, and almost every other known prize.



Like J. Pierrepont Finch, Mead's caricature of a business man, Mead became a sort of folk hero in his own right—but a folk hero with a message.

Stanley Bing is a bestselling fiction and nonfiction writer, and a longtime columnist for Esquire, Fortune, and many other national publications. He is the author of almost a dozen books that explore the boundaries of hard-nosed, practical business strategy and satire. These include Crazy Bosses, which, in mapping the relationship between pathology and power, predicted so much of the current political climate; What Would Machiavelli Do, which addressed why mean people often do better than nice ones; and most recently a comprehensive replacement for the traditional MBA program, The Curriculum. His three novels are Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life.

Table of Contents

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 2.0 Stanley Bing ix

1 How to Apply for a Job 1

2 The Interview 7

3 How to Rise from the Mailroom 15

4 How to Stop Being a Junior Executive 25

5 How to Delegate Responsibility 33

6 How to Plan Your Day 41

7 The Meeting Is a Must! 49

8 How to Write Memos 57

9 Be an Idea Man! 67

10 Make Research Work for You 75

11 How to Make More Money 83

12 How to Keep Money 93

13 How to Play Company Politics 101

14 How to Be a Fair-Haired Boy 111

15 How to Handle Your Advertising Agency 121

16 SEX in Business, Its Uses and Abuses 131

17 Be a Big Brother 139