Books : Sun Tzu Was a Sissy : Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War

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We live in a vicious, highly competitive workplace environment, and things aren't getting any better. Jobs are few and far between, and people aren't any nicer now than they were when Ghengis Khan ran around in big furs killing people in unfriendly acquisitions. For thousands of years, people have been reading the writings of the deeply wise, but also extremely dead Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, who was perhaps the first to look on the waging of war as a strategic art that could be taught to people who wished to be warlords and other kinds of senior managers.

In a nutshell, Sun Tzu taught that readiness is all, that knowledge of oneself and the enemy was the foundation of strength and that those who fight best are those who are prepared and wise enough not to fight at all. Unfortunately, in the current day, this approach is pretty much horse hockey, a fact that has not been recognized by the bloated, tree-hugging Sun Tzu industry, which churns out mushy-gushy pseudo-philosophy for business school types who want to make war and keep their hands clean.

Sun Tzu was a Sissy will transcend all those efforts and teach the reader how to make war, win and enjoy the plunder in the real world, where those who do not kick, gouge and grab are left behind at the table to pay the tab. Students of Bing will be taught how to plan and execute battles that hurt other people a lot, and advance their flags and those of their friends, if possible. All military strategies will be explored, from mustering, equipping, organizing, plotting, scheming, rampaging, squashing and reaping spoils.

Every other book on the Art of War bows low to Sun Tzu. We're going to tell him to get lost and inform our readers how real war is currently conducted on the battlefield of life.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Corporate Politics is War!
This book is very enlightening and cool. Stanley Bing says it like it is. If you wait long enough your enemies will float down river!

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- National Bestseller? Whom did he pay to get that on the cover?
I'm sorely disappointed in this book. I picked it up, read the cover, a little bit of the first chapter and thought it might be funny and entertaining. Completely boring and not funny at all. He uses numerous charts and graphs to try to make his points. Trouble is, there are no points and the charts and graphs are little more than senseless graphics. Don't waste your time and money. If you can find it for a .10 and you have time to waste, OK. How does garbage like this get published?

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- Obnoxious
How anybody could actually finish reading this book is beyond me. No valid insights whatsoever.

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- Excellent service despite unfortunate circumstances
My order failed to reach me in a timely manner, neither through the fault of the merchant nor I. However, as soon as I contacted them about my issue, they promptly emailed me back and the book was in my hands 3 days later! Would highly recommend! Cheers.

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- You need Yinyang. You need Bing.
I think the one-star reviewers are missing the joke here. For those of us who read the back page of Fortune first, Gil Schwartz's Stanley Bing is the thing. His irreverent brand of humor is always spot on. His writing is crisp and well-constructed (you expected anything less from CBS' Head of PR?). His humor is biting, yet very smart, witty and delightfully unexpected.

Here's one example of many from the book - one of Bing's stock-in-trade tricks are his faux charts and tables. In ... Read More

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