How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: With a New Introduction by Stanley Bing

Marc Notes: Originally published: 1952.; The book that inspired the Pulitzer-Prize-winning musical--Cover. Table of Contents: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 2.0 / Stanley Bing -- 1. How to Apply for a Job -- 2. The Interview -- 3. How to Rise from the Mailroom -- 4. How to Stop Being a Junior Executive -- 5. How to Delegate Responsibility -- 6. How to Plan Your Day -- 7. The Meeting Is a Must! -- 8. How to Write Memos -- 9. Be an Idea Man! -- 10. Make Research Work for You -- 11. How to Make More Money -- 12. How to Keep Money -- 13. How to Play Company Politics -- 14. How to Be a Fair-Haired Boy -- 15. How to Handle Your Advertising Agency -- 16. SEX in Business, Its Uses and Abuses -- 17. Be a Big Brother. Publisher Marketing: 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. Contributor Bio:  Mead, Shepherd Shepherd Mead (1914-94) was an American advertising consultant and the author of the best-selling satirical guidebooks books "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying "and "How to Succeed with Women Without Really Trying." The former was developed into a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Contributor Bio:  Bing, Stanley Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sizzy, 100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get Them, and The Big Bing, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened and You Look Nice Today. By day he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.