Sun Tzu Was A Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, And Wag e 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. 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 useless, 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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"No one understands corporate war better, or makes it funnier, than Stanley Bing." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

"A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace. Bing proves once and for all that the pen is mightier than the sword, especially when he's wielding the pen and the guy with the sword has been dead for thousands of years." -- Neil Cavuto, Fox News

"Bing is hilarious!" -- Don Imus

"Mr. Bing's humor is ...laugh-out-loud funny." -- Dallas Morning News

"A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments." -- USA Today

"The book is Bing at his snarky best." -- Miami Herald

"Among our best corporate-war correspondents. Bing provides a wickedly entertaining little guide to remaking yourself as a rapacious, coldhearted S.O.B." -- Time magazine

"Designed to make you as tactically sound in your private life as you are in the cruel, cruel world." -- Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, and Marine Corps Times

Author Bio

Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the best-selling author of What Would Machiavelli Do and Throwing The Elephant, as well as the novel You Look Nice Today and the ultimate guide to life in this or any other workplace world, The Big Bing. By day, he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.