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Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last business book you will ever need. For in these pages, Stanley Bing solves the best issue of your working life: How exactly to manage the boss.
The technique is easy . . . as simple as throwing an elephant. All it requires is the correct mind-set, a step-by-step plan, and a great leap of faith. This humble guide provides all these and more. It really is Zen that enables someone to take an object of enormous weight and size and mold it in one's grasp just like a ball of Silly Putty. For senior management, in truth, is the silliest putty of these all.
This comprehensive course walks budding business bodhisattvas through basic skills needed to supply the simple elephant handling which makes everyday activities possible, including but not limited to the primary task of following along following the elephant with a little broom and dustpan.Serious students will move to intermediate steps, from Polishing the Elephant's Tusks to Hiding from the Elephant When It Has Been Drinking and Feels Quite Nasty. Beyond this level lies the land of the practiced Zen masters, culminating in the capability to leverage and then throw the now-weightless elephant--and even play catch with it at corporate retreats.
If What Would Machiavelli Would Do? was the meanest business book because the Renaissance, Throwing the Elephant supplies the yang to that yin. Because sometimes you need to be selfless, compassionate, and completely empty to get the job done.
