Crazy Bosses

by Stanley Bing

Book Overview

Drawing on hundreds of no-holds-barred interviews, the renowned Executive Summary columnist for "Esquire" dissects the mentality of the workplace--and comes up with solid strategies for those who work... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060731575
• ISBN13: 9780060731571
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Harper Business
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated -book

Hilarious book about boss personality types. Is great for anyone in a stressful job, one with a bad boss, or for anyone with a job who can use a laugh.

This nails them down

Bing really hits the nail on the head with this book. My immediate tyrant is actually two of the types described, which is why he is so irritating. At least now I understand what I have to deal with. Makes life a bit easier. Bing is witty, sarcastic, and makes you feel that he has been there. And I believe that he has. Great book. I am passing it around my office -- with one exception, of course.

Therapeutic Humor for Employees

Mr. Bing is hilarious and this book is a joy to read. For everyone whose boss is at least partly crazy (and let's face it, isn't that most of us?), you'll appreciate this book. I read it and passed it around to all my co-workers. The book outlines the types and characteristics of crazy bosses, using much humor. You may even want to give a copy to your boss on Boss's Day. Those who would benefit the most from reading it are bosses themselves, but they're rarely the type to be self-aware or reflective in any way. Sad, but true.

I've had my share...

....of Crazy Bosses! Not only did I have them, I'm sure I was one, too - there's nothing like a corporate environment to bring out interesting tendencies in anyone. When I received an anonymous e-mail at work, with excerpts from this book, I had to have it! Easy to read, written with wit and actual substance, this book (predecessor to the very popular "Who Moved My Cheese?" and "When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses") helped get me through some difficult times.If you can't just stop working to do something you really enjoy -- and not many can, aside from Dilbert's Scott Adams and me -- this book is like an emotional teddy bear with teeth. He defines different "Crazy Bosses" by behavior (most of us are a mix), reasons why they may be that way, and practical ways to work with them, because most of aren't likely to get away from them, even if we change corporations and bosses. The truth most of us don't want to know is that the insanity of the business world is ours to deal with, not management's to fix. There is no one coming to the rescue - and we each play our own part to the madness, by our own responses. This book is a good aid with suggestions on what to do and what NOT to do, to survive. We have to rely on our own emotional and physical health, friends, a sense of humor and a sense of our own self-worth (aside from work) so we won't feel like a victim.The book I found the most helpful throughout my corporate life - and it was great in my real life, too - was M. Scott Peck's "The Road Less Traveled." "Life is difficult," and once we figure that out, we can get on with living! If you are feeling like a victim, read these books and start a discussion with a friend or two!Good luck - and rest assured that there *is* life after work!

A superb graduate class in business

Find this book, read it, keep it tucked under your pillow. It is full of wit, humor, insight . . . and more than a dash of morbid truth. Well-written, it is the kind of book that management professors should have as required reading. This is one of two books that every serious student of business should have in his or her library; the other is "You Can Win at Office Politics," by Dr. Robert Bell. Somehow they are both first-rate writing and first-rate philosophy. Don't say you weren't warned!