Sun Tzu Was a Sissy
Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
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$35.95 |
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11/12/2004 |
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Hardcover | Trade PB
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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.
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Critical Praise for
Sun Tzu Was a Sissy
"No one understands corporate war better, or makes it funnier, than Stanley Bing."
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Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
"A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace."
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Neil Cavuto, Fox News
"Bing is hilarious!"
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Don Imus
"Designed to make you as tactically sound in your private life as you are in the cruel, cruel world."
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Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, and Marine Corps Times
"Mr. Bing’s humor is ...laugh-out-loud funny."
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Dallas Morning News
"A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments."
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USA Today
"The book is Bing at his snarky best."
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Miami Herald
Reader Reviews from First Look
The one book in the universe to fuse the thoughts of Bugs Bunny and Barbara Bush, Chairman Mao and M. C. Hammer, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy is a lighthearted read with a lead-fisted punch. Laced with wry wit, silliness and dead-on savvy, STWAS draws a bead on wimpy business warfare and shoots to kill. Whether you're in the trenches, reviewing the troops, or AWOL from the business world, Bing rations enough insight, laughter, and food for thought to energize you for your next skirmish.
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Loureen (San Jose, CA)
The one book in the universe to fuse the thoughts of Bugs Bunny and Barbara Bush, Chairman Mao and M. C. Hammer, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy is a lighthearted read with a lead-fisted punch. Laced with wry wit, silliness and dead-on savvy, STWAS draws a bead on wimpy business warfare and shoots to kill. Whether you're in the trenches, reviewing the troops, or AWOL from the business world, Bing rations enough insight, laughter, and food for thought to energize you for your next skirmish.
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Loureen (San Jose, CA)
If you want to chuckle this book is just chock full of them.
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Diana (Farmington Hills, MI)
Phew, I am out of breath and planning my moves ... with a smile on my face. Thanks Stanley Bing for the plans to succeed.
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Teri (Arkdale, WI)
If you're looking for an animalistic pep talk to fuel your primal urge to eviscerate the competition without all the carbs and guilt, this is the book for you.
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Kathleen (Dearborn, MI)
One of the most entertaining books I've read this year. I recommend this to everyone. This is how the real business world works today. If you are too weak-kneed to heed the call then go ahead and save us the trouble of throwing you from the train. Go ahead and jump.
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Terry (North Royalton, OH)
The most entertaining business book I've read since ...Throwing the Elephant. Tongue firmly in cheek, Bing once again turns the average business book inside out.
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Kenneth (Boulder, CO)
I loved this book. I would recommend this book to just about anyone living in the trenches of corporate America. With exception to upper management. They must live in their Sun Tzu ways while the rest us of prepare for battle.
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Darla (Dublin, OH)
Very enjoyable reading for the Sun Tzu enthusiast with a taste for the tongue in cheek. It's an agressive look at life and business basics that reinforces a take-no-prisoners attitude. It's cute, dark edged, and a lot of fun if you have a few quiet hours to kill.
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Alice (Wichita, KS)
Stanley Bing's identity has been revealed: he's the illegitimate love child of Don Rickles and Totie Fields and his new book Sun Tzu Was a Sissy is definitely East meets East Side. (Don't like my introduction to the review? Tso tsue me.) This is a funny book. It's aggravating, annoying, slanted, testy, and just plain funny. You could devour it in a few hours (and probably get heartburn) but I suggest that you nosh on it a few pages at a time -- that way you''ll savor his insights, and extend the fun over a few days. If you''re from the East Coast, you'll know what he's talking about; if you're from the Mid West, you'll learn something; if you're from the West Coast, lighten up -- it's only a funny book.
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Albert (Clarks Summit, PA)
Very enlightening, appropriate for the cut throat times we live in with mergers and down sizing. A lot of humor mixed in with good solid advice. I definetly reccomend this book.
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Pat (Durham, CT)
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