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Title details for Executricks by Stanley Bing - Available

Executricks

Or How to Retire While You're Still Working

by Stanley Bing
Alan Sklar
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The central question of every hard-working person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy a bottle of ninety-five-dollar Borolo without trembling. This is as true at age thirty as it is at more advanced ages. But by age forty, most of us are already thinking of exit strategies that will place us firmly off the grid for good. The question, then, is simple: How to retire while continuing to enjoy all the best things that haute-bourgeois life has to offer? The answer has been under our noses all along: Retire while still working! This might seem like a difficult proposition, but close examination of the concept reveals that there are many among us who have been exploring this boundary betwen a nice nap and the long sleep for quite some time. They are called "Senior Management," and we have a lot to learn from them.

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  • Release date

    June 17, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400127030
      • File size: 131683 KB
      • Duration: 04:34:20

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 28, 2008
      In this salty satire of a business guide, Bing (What Would Machiavelli Do?
      ) invites “anyone with a job and a desire to shirk it” into his program of retiring while still on the job. “I'm scared to retire. That way lies senescence, superfluity, and too much thought about fiber. Not to mention, you know, Death,” he writes, and he isn't a mite too enamored with the drudgery of the working life. Bing's solution is to live like a CEO while a mere drone, and his slacker's guide dispenses pithy advice on the arts of delegation, abuse of status, napping on the job and the all-important acquisition of a career-building table at important restaurants. And why work excruciatingly long hours when you can fake job devotion through the clever manipulation of your handy BlackBerry? Though the tone turns from gently mocking to earnestly didactic by the end, the book makes a great gift for the legions of would-be retirees and provides laughter and relief from the anxieties of corporate culture.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Stanley Bing, who is actually CBS Corporate Communications executive Gil Schwartz, provides a highly satiric and often-hilarious look at the glorious working life of key corporate executives. Those who aspire to such heights would be well served to listen closely to the provided to-do lists and guidelines. For example, when confused, always conduct yourself as a visionary and always use a smart phone to provide simultaneous job presence and absence. Alan Sklar has an obvious gift for satiric narration. His continuously arched eyebrow can be clearly heard as Bing takes great glee in puncturing long-cherished management values and traditional leadership maxims. W.A.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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