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"If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?"
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| | What Would Machiavelli Do?:
The Ends Justify the Meanness
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| | by Stanley Bing
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ZIN Product Number: 10011224
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0066620104
Release Date: Jan 4, 2002
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
What Would Machiavelli Do?- He would feast on other people's discord
- He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand, either
- He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry
- He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward
- He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control
- He would use other people's opinions to sell his book!
| | | | From The Publisher
How did the rich and powerful individuals who move the earth get where they are today? Are they smarter? Faster? Better looking? Certainly not. Some are even short and ugly. What, then, is their edge?
The answer is simple: they're meaner. That's all. And if you want to get where they're going, you'll be meaner, too.
The good news is that once you get started, it's easy. Walking in the steps of the Florentine master, Stanley Bing will show you how to be all the Machiavelli you can be. How to beat people who are smarter than you are. How to make other people cringe and whimper when you enter a room. How to get what you want when you want it whether you deserve it or not. Without fear. Without emotion. Without finger-wagging morality. One scalp at a time.
They do it. You can too.
What Would Machiavelli Do? is more than a road map for people who want to get to the top and stay there. It's a way of life you can use at home as well as at the office. A way of seeing other people from 50,000 feet—as teeny-tiny ants you can squish. A simple, detailed plan for those with the courage to leave kindness and decency behind, to seize the future by the throat and make it cough upmoney, power and superior office space.
Some books are not for everybody. This one is. So start reading. Or get out of here. You're beginning to get on our nerves.
Author Biography: Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine, which he joined in 1995 after a decade writing a monthly column for Esquire magazine. He is also the author of the novel Lloyd: What Happened. When he is not commenting on corporate life, Bing works for an enormous multinationalconglomerate whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
Save your time and money
-- A reviewer, July 15, 2002
Also Recommended: The Portable Macchiavelli (includes writings, The Prince, and a funny play he wrote entitled, The Mandrake Root
What would Duncan do? Read this book
-- Duncan Andrew St.Clair, January 2, 2001
Also Recommended: Reject me, I love it!
Fun, poolside/bedtime reading
-- retired @ 50, still learning, October 15, 2001
| |  | | | Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction xvii
What Would Machiavelli Do? He would exploit himself only slightly less than he exploits others 1
He would be unpredictable, and thus gain the advantage 3
He would be in love with his destiny 6
He would be, for the most part, a paranoid freak 8
He would always be at war 12
He would cultivate a few well-loved enemies 16
He would have a couple of good friends, too 21
He would acquire his neighbor 22
He would think BIG 25
He would move forward like a great shark, eating as he goes 27
He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward 29
He would fire his own mother, if necessary 37
He would make a virtue out of his obnoxiousness 41
He would be way upbeat! 44
He would be satisfied with nobody but himself 45
He would treat himself right 47
She would view her gender as both a liability and an asset 52
He would use what he's got 58
He would embrace his own madness 60
He would do what he feels like doing, you idiot 64
He would say what he felt like saying 69
He would delegate all the crummy tasks, except the ones he enjoys 71
He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand, either 72
He would respond poorly to criticism 73
He would carry a grudge until the extinction of the cockroach 74
He would lie when it was necessary 77
He would be proud of his cruelty and see it as strength 81
He would kick ass and take names 85
He would permanently cripple those who disappoint him 89
He would torture people until they were only too happy to destroy themselves 93
He would feast on other people's discord 96
He would make you fear for you life 99
He would be loyal to the people who could up with all this 101
He would have no patience for anyfuckingbody 106
He would screw with people's weekends, wedding plans, open-heart surgery... 107
He would put it in you face 108
He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry 110
He would have no conscience to speak of 117
He would scream at people a lot 120
He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control 123
He would follow the money, honey 127
He wouldn't be afraid to sling that bullshit 131
He would eat to kill 137
He would never retire 142
He would have fun 144
Afterword: What Would Machiavelli Not Do? 145
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