Editorial Review:
People in the high flush of a successful but sometimes frenetic business career often look with envy at those who have entered their golden years. Ah! they think. To be retired! Free to wake when you wish, to have the time to reflect on the deeper things in life, play golf or quoits, or just go fishin' in the middle of the day. The stressed-out mind boggles at the prospect, and the lip cannot help but tremble and drool. At the same time, you may not be emotionally–or financially–ready to hang it all up. Which is why, whether you're a withered graybeard or a teeny young future hotshot in leather jodhpurs, you need Stanley Bing's global positioning system for a sane and pleasantly successful life: Executricks, or How to Retire While You're Still Working. Bing is the ultimate corporate insider, one who has attained nosebleed altitude and worked long and hard enough to lose his desire to work long and hard enough. Over time, he has watched the power players who have made their jobs into a waking festival of indolence and fun, and gleaned a vast range of executricks they have developed over the years, based around several core concepts: - Delegation, or getting other people to do the stuff you don't want to
- Absence, or the ability to get "work" done while not being physically on the scene
- Abuse of status
- Acting visionary when confused
- Intense engagement (used only in crisis)
A wellspring of executricks flow from these simple precepts, including: - The use of the cell phone and BlackBerry to establish a permanent state of simultaneous Omniscience and Not-Presence
- Roping off mealtimes as zones of defensible entitlement
- Travel as an alternative to work
- The art of the nap
- Golf–the ultimate dodge
- Philanthropy and social activism, a pleasant parallel universe
Executricks is the most precious of resources for those who work hard but would rather be hardly working: a secret handbook that lays bare the stratagems of those who have already ascended to the pinnacles of power. No office, home, or backpack should be without a dog-eared copy. Early adopters earn extra points.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Not for the Lay Man  2008-09-05
I was very happy with the service I received in ordering this book. I was just disappointed after reading it, it wasn't advice for the common worker. This would only apply to those in management positions. It kind of proved the point of how managers do hardly any work and get paid the most.
great on ideas, thin on details 2008-08-15
its written in a gag like tone but it scares me that under the gag he is being serious. Makes me want to short sell all fortune 500 companies who are large enough for people pulling executricks to hide in...
Do not waste yout time and money..  2008-08-02
this was the worst book I have ever read... please do not waste your time..
it is full of garbage... somebody put together some words that do not make any sense at all.
Lewis
Look around your Organization!  2008-06-26
I love Stanley Bing and I throughly enjoyed this book. If you don't believe what he writes - look around your organizations. How many Executives develop an arrogance attitude, take 1 1/2 hour lunches, travel to look important. I love the Blackberry, you can make it look like you are working and off on vacation. This must be the season for these type of books, which are opening up the hidden agenda of Executives.
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