Throwing the Elephant
Zen and the Art of Managing Up
by Stanley Bing · first published 2002
100% recommend
What Would Machiavelli Do? and Throwing the Elephant. Fortune's Stanley Bing has written two very different but complementary survival guides for today's business world. Inspired by the Florentine master, Bing offers (in Machiavelli) a way of seeing colleagues and rivals from 50,000 feet -- as teeny-tiny ants you can squish. When this method doesn't work (e.g., you have a boss), Bing counsels a Zen approach (in Elephant) that will allow you to render the elephant (i.e., your boss) weightless -- and throw and play catch with it at corporate retreats.Sit down. Breathe deep. This is the last busi
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For a delightful, humorous take on the subject, I would recommend reading: "Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up" by Stanley Bing.
on “Managing your boss: adjusting to narcissists, 'ghosts,' gaslighters” ↗…one of the two most marketable ones. Learn an RDMS and how to use it properly. Learn some soft skills - 7 Habits of Highly Affective People, the 48 laws of Power (but take it with a grain of salt), Throwing the Elephant, etc.
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