Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Business & Professional

Jet lag, boardrooms, and high-pressure deals.

That's what international business brings to mind.

But R.F. Hemphill makes us think again.

Sharing a series of letters sent to his father during his decade of traveling the world building a billion-dollar company, Hemphill illuminates the always practical, sometimes poignant, and often funny ways we must connect if business is to be done.

"If they served you camel hooves for dinner, and you didn't know it until you asked, what part of the camel did you have for...

As I have sat in my office solving my company's procurement woes, vendors, friends and colleagues would fax me jokes and funny stories. At first, I would read them and toss. Quickly, I decided they were too funny to throw away, so I started a file and have kept them all these years and have now felt that this is the time to share them with others of my age group. I think you will enjoy reading and sharing these lost gems as much as I have. - S. G. Soto

I have for many years, like many people, harboured the ambition to write a book. For me the glass is always half full and with the experiences I have been through I finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper.

This book was written partly out of the desire to share these experiences and partly to bring a smile to the faces of the readers who may or may not have had similar experiences. It was built around a lessons learnt process of what I describe as a "perfect storm" in terms of what could go wrong when naively getting into something you are just not prepared for. It is far from...

After-dinner speaker Barrie Lawrence has been making people laugh - really laugh - for years. Now it's your turn to hear his unbelievably funny, sometimes poignant stories from dental school, surgery and life. How did a pet frog lead to a successful career of seven dental surgeries and a bookshop? And of course, he was a student during those years known as the 'Swinging Sixties ' But something else happened at the London Hospital - something that was even more important than training as a dentist You'll laugh, you'll cry, and most important of all, you will be inspired.

We are all assailed on a daily basis with blandishments to buy and commands to carry out. And, let's be honest, some are inaccurate, slapdash, erroneous, mistaken and often downright dishonest. In fact, much of what they tell us is not just simply wrong, it is wrong in a way that is funny - it makes us laugh. In Empty When Half Full, a plethora of such nonsense is quoted and analysed, highlighting the silly, surreal and often hilarious nature of it. Organisations large and small are equally guilty. So much so that sometimes what they say to persuade us can be positively dangerous. From...

In the years after the Second World War, a young doctor took up his post in one of the most remote regions of northern Minnesota. His term of service turned into a lifetime of caring for the people who made this isolated and often lonely place their home. The story of this remarkable adventure in frontline medicine forms the heart of this wonderful book.

For almost four decades, Roger MacDonald was the country doctor who tended to those in need in an area larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Because he was the only doctor for miles, MacDonald traveled to...

"So You Want to Be a Doctor?" tells of some of the more humorous, tragic, and poignant cases Dr. Harold Fletcher encountered during his many years as a physician. He tells hopeful medical students, "If you can:

• Give the same medical attention to a woman off the street that you would a Major Hollywood star.
• Extricate Vaseline jar from a drunk lady's vagina.
• Endure the horror of hundreds of bodies and body parts scattered over a field after an air accident or an enormous explosion.
• React professionally even though you are fearful that the small boy, dressed as your young...

Fast-paced, funny, and smart. This novel puts you into the world of a young MBA striving to succeed at a famous high-tech company. Brash and confident yet comically inept, Tony clashes with colleagues, clients, and even his biggest supporters. He fires his most loyal employee, derails the career of his only friend, and nearly destroys his young marriage before transforming from chilly corporate collaborator to empathetic executive coach. Laugh and learn as his clients turn criminal, corporations collapse, and compassion triumphs.

Veteran executive coach Tony Mayo draws on his years...

Each page of this daily desktop calendar features a different multi-panel comic strip with funny and relatable tales from the modern-day office, whether it's at corporate or at home. As an added bonus, the back of each page includes Daily Extra content such as puzzles, jokes, coloring fun, and trivia. Features include: No single-use plastic Page size 5.354" x 4.488" Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display Printed on FSC® certified paper with soy-based ink Full-color tear-off pages Back of pages contain Daily Extra content such as puzzles, jokes,...

Hard-hitting and sarcastic, this calendar's funny comics are for keyboard strikers––whether you work from home or on site at the office––who are not afraid to laugh at themselves. Corporat Comics came to life when Shubham Khurana, aka @corporatcomics on Instagram, a marketer by day and undercover artist by night, decided to combine his passion for sketching with the inaneness of corporate life.  Since 2019, Shubham has been a featured cartoonist at every ComicCon India. In 2024, Simon & Schuster India published Shubham's first book, Monday to Friday: A Corporat Comics Collection...