Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Business & Professional

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

-The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.-
--New York Times

Back in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon with his brilliant, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on business and life, The Peter Principle--and his words and theories are as true today as they were then. By posing--and answering--the eternal question, -Why do things always go wrong?- Peter explores the incompetence that runs so rampant through our society, our workplace, and our world in an outrageously funny yet honest and eye-opening manner. With a new...

It used to be that stuff made you cool. That is so twentieth century. Jeff Yeager, the man dubbed The Ultimate Cheapskate by Matt Lauer on "Today," offers a completely fresh take on personal finance, teaching us how to enjoy life more by spending" less." He will show you how to buy less stuff, retire young, and live financially free, while you make a positive difference in people s lives and save the planet along the way. "The Ultimate Cheapskate s Road Map to True Riches" lays out the practices and principles that have made cheap the new cool.
Live within your means at thirty and stay...

The 65th-anniversary edition of an educational classic proves its relevance in examining today's educational quandaries

McGraw-Hill first published The Saber- Tooth Curriculum in 1939, and it has remained a classic bestseller to this date. The book is just as relevant and applicable to the key questions in education today as it was when it was first published.

With tongue firmly in cheek, Peddiwell takes on the contradictions and confusion generated by conflicting philosophies of education, outlining the patterns and progression of education itself, from its...

The Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.

An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, The Devil's Financial Dictionary delivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street...

He has now spent over a decade on a chaotic and emotional rollercoaster ride that is being an Industrial abseiler, working on some of the most iconic buildings and structures in Britain. While doing this exhilarating job he has worked with some of the most unique, strange and just damn right crazy people you're ever likely to meet. This book has it all The outrageous funny stories, the adrenalin rushes, the drunken debauchery, the fear, the deaths, the sadness, the depression and camaraderie that bonds...