Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Business & Professional

A hilarious tale of restoring and running two holiday cottages in a remote hamlet of SW France. As the world's worst housekeeper, running holiday homes wasn't, with hindsight, a sensible idea. But two collapsing buildings on Susie Kelly's land would cost more to demolish than to restore. Thus she became a seasonal landlady.

Before the guests came the builders. No's 1, 2, 3 all started promisingly, but by builder No. 4, and with her first guests just hours away, her patience was stretched to its limit. Her summer and winter visitors couldn't, as they say, be made up, though, to spare...

- How to make money

- How to make more money

- How to choose the right company (one big enough so that nobody knows exactly what anyone else is doing)

- How to cultivate the appearance of extreme busyness through strategic desk management

- How to delegate responsibility (have plenty of assistants )

First published in 1952, this guide inspired the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, which returns to Broadway in 2011 in a production that stars Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette....

After 38 years of doing commercial business insurance inspections, I'm almost certain I've seen every kind of business imaginable - from restaurants on top of snow capped peaks to houses of ill repute to gold mines in the hills of Wyoming. My inspectors and I have been confronted or outright attacked by dogs, mosquitoes, turkeys, bears, and, of course, people. We covered five states from top to bottom including large cities, small towns and remote areas. We roamed this vast region with directions such as, "Turn right when you come to the bull in the field," or "You need to find a rock that...

Have you ever held down a job for money rather than love? Put up with an impossible boss? Been told when and how often to visit the restroom, get a drink, use the phone? Struggled to remember that who you are doesn't depend on what you do?

Meet Claudia Shear, a misfit from Brooklyn who grew up dreaming of adventure. Shear rode a wild wave of employment (sixty-four jobs in all) on her way to realizing her dream of...