The Big Bing

Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe

By: Stanley Bing

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Paperback | 12 December 2025

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The definitive collection of thoughts, assaults, and hilarious observations from America’s premier business humorist and bestselling author of Throwing the Elephant and What Would Machiavelli Do?

The Big Bing will be a mandatory addition to the library of everyone who works for a living, or would like to. For nearly 20 years, Stanley Bing’s funny, wise, pleasantly mean-spirited, and at times even useful columns have delighted readers in the pages of Esquire, Fortune and a variety of other national publications.

Bing has lived the last two decades inside the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos. And he has seen it all: the high body count after many a gruesome deal, the machine that grinds up the bones of those who stood in its way, the birth and death of executive dinosaurs (and he’s had quite a few lunches with some of them, too). The result is storytelling at its best—sophisticated, amusing, and driven by the kind of insight that only a true insider can possess.

The Big Bing provides a mole’s-eye-view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters.

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"With sly humor, Bing offers alternative strategies to conquering any industry provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency, and if need be, close family members."--Time magazine
With sly humor, Bing offers alternative strategies to conquering any industry provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency, and if need be, close family members.--Time magazine
"The Big Bing may be the funniest business book ever written."--Don Imus

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Introduction	p. xiii
The Tao of How: Strategies, Tactics, and Diversionary Activities	p. 1
Latte Break: Are You a World-Class Liar?	p. 28
Firends, Enemies, and Consultants	p. 31
Latte Break: The Bing Ethics Test	p. 59
You Da Man! Or, Why We Love the Boss	p. 62
Latte Break: What's Your EQ?	p. 87
Tales from the Political Crypt	p. 90
Latte Break: Casey at the Mouse	p. 120
Big Tech Attack	p. 123
Latte Break: What's Your Sign?	p. 153
On the Road Again (and Again)	p. 156
Latte Break: So, Are Ya Havin' Fun?	p. 184
The Human Animal	p. 188
Latte Break: Twenty Good Reasons to Cry	p. 209
The Man Show	p. 211
Latte Break: The Auditor	p. 236
This just In: Stuff That Really Happened	p. 239
Latte Break: The Love Song of Alfred E. Neuman	p. 278
What, Me Worry?	p. 281
Latte Break: The Broker: A Poem of Gothic Horror	p. 314
Up and Out	p. 316
Latte Break: Business Haiku	p. 341
Last Words (for the time being)	p. 345
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The Big Bing

Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe

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