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Title: Throwing the Elephant
Subtitle: Zen and the Art of Managing Up
Author: Stanley Bing
Narrator: Philip Bosco, Simon Jones
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-04
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 84 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up artfully, clearly, and concisely provides a thorough grounding in the Zen Buddhist attitude you will need in order to move forward and control the people you work for. This book guarantees personal enlightenment while providing literally dozens of helpful, specific exercises and solutions to the most common problems of professional life.
Critic Reviews:
"In a spoof of just about every career advice and management-by-metaphor book ever created, Bing delivers a Zen-like guide to managing your boss. The premise? Here's what Buddha would tell you if he were your personal career coach." (Publishers Weekly)
"A clever book on how to manage elephants, a.k.a. bosses....Witty and thought-provoking...imaginative and unique." (Library Journal)
"This is essential reading for anyone who hates his or her boss and the corporate structure in general." (Booklist)
Members Reviews:
In response to David from Lafayette
Could David possibly be an elephant? This book is not about climbing any ladders, it's about being effective and happy where you are on the ladder. I found the approach and the content helpful and would recommend it to anyone looking to make sense of the Dibertesque corporate cultures that control most of our waking hours.
An interesting take on an old topic
Not a ton of new ideas here, but a refreshing way to deliver age old wisdom on how you should be handling the relationship with your boss. I laughed out loud a couple times on the delivery.
excellent and fun
This is a great book for a review and fun to listen too. It tells you some words of wisdom in a humorous and stylistic manner that makes you picture some of the mistakes you've made in the past and how to share them with the people you lead. I would recommend this to others who enjoy laughing and visualizing situations. Also to people who are coaching future leaders. Can it help you with your own situations in working with yoiur own leader...yes it can.
A bit out of date
Entertaining but not very useful. There are a couple tidbits but find a summary and skip the whole book.
I was not expecting this book to be hilarious
What made the experience of listening to Throwing the Elephant the most enjoyable?
The accent of the narrator makes this book so much more clever because it conjures images of watching a Nature channel with wise hints of Obi Wan. Brilliant.
What other book might you compare Throwing the Elephant to and why?
Having read/listened to stacks of business books, I was anticipating a business book to give me tips on getting ahead or whatever, and instead I'm getting zen lessons in throwing an elephant. Nothing like it. This book is remarkably clever. Things that used to annoy me about the elephant now just make me smile.
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Title: Throwing the Elephant
Subtitle: Zen and the Art of Managing Up
Author: Stanley Bing
Narrator: Philip Bosco, Simon Jones
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-04
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 84 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up artfully, clearly, and concisely provides a thorough grounding in the Zen Buddhist attitude you will need in order to move forward and control the people you work for. This book guarantees personal enlightenment while providing literally dozens of helpful, specific exercises and solutions to the most common problems of professional life.
Critic Reviews:
"In a spoof of just about every career advice and management-by-metaphor book ever created, Bing delivers a Zen-like guide to managing your boss. The premise? Here's what Buddha would tell you if he were your personal career coach." (Publishers Weekly)
"A clever book on how to manage elephants, a.k.a. bosses....Witty and thought-provoking...imaginative and unique." (Library Journal)
"This is essential reading for anyone who hates his or her boss and the corporate structure in general." (Booklist)
Members Reviews:
In response to David from Lafayette
Could David possibly be an elephant? This book is not about climbing any ladders, it's about being effective and happy where you are on the ladder. I found the approach and the content helpful and would recommend it to anyone looking to make sense of the Dibertesque corporate cultures that control most of our waking hours.
An interesting take on an old topic
Not a ton of new ideas here, but a refreshing way to deliver age old wisdom on how you should be handling the relationship with your boss. I laughed out loud a couple times on the delivery.
excellent and fun
This is a great book for a review and fun to listen too. It tells you some words of wisdom in a humorous and stylistic manner that makes you picture some of the mistakes you've made in the past and how to share them with the people you lead. I would recommend this to others who enjoy laughing and visualizing situations. Also to people who are coaching future leaders. Can it help you with your own situations in working with yoiur own leader...yes it can.
A bit out of date
Entertaining but not very useful. There are a couple tidbits but find a summary and skip the whole book.
I was not expecting this book to be hilarious
What made the experience of listening to Throwing the Elephant the most enjoyable?
The accent of the narrator makes this book so much more clever because it conjures images of watching a Nature channel with wise hints of Obi Wan. Brilliant.
What other book might you compare Throwing the Elephant to and why?
Having read/listened to stacks of business books, I was anticipating a business book to give me tips on getting ahead or whatever, and instead I'm getting zen lessons in throwing an elephant. Nothing like it. This book is remarkably clever. Things that used to annoy me about the elephant now just make me smile.