Julie chats with Gil Schwartz, the head of CBS Corporate Communications, about his alter ego Stanley Bing, and how to retire while you?re still working.
Julie Alexandria chats with Gil Schwartz, executive vice president of communications at CBS Television, about how to retire while you're still working.
A few posts ago, I launched a worst sales manager contest. You readers came up with some definite doozies, but the best of the worst as it were was:Hes arrogant, hes sarcastic and hes the ultimate control freak. He fights (yes, physical slapping and kicking) with the other sales...
Association Reports Findings of Lengthy Project, Profiling Those Who Have Earned the Benefits of Retirement While Pursuing Successful Careers in Business, Politics, The Arts NEW YORK, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A New York City-based research organization today identified the greatest "Executricksters" of all time - notable historical...
MURDERER Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed one of the 'Scissor Sisters', will appear in court this week in an attempt to overturn her conviction. The cold-blooded killer's legal team are appealling against her life sentence at the Court of Criminal Appeal. The 25-year-old was...
All you need is war Pam Marinko reviews Stanley Bing's Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War Anyone who has been in sales for more than three or four years has undoubtedly come across The Art of War by...
OAKLAND -- Funeral services for Stanley Mock, an Oakland police officer who worked the Chinatown walking beat for the last few years, will be held today at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Oakland. Mock was killed Saturday while riding his personal motorcycle near the...
WASHINGTON AFP — Morgan Stanley said Thursday it was expanding its burgeoning global property empire with a 5.4-billion US dollar acquisition of leading Australian real estate company, Investa. With a price tag of 6.6 billion Australian dollars, the deal offers Morgan Stanley control of some heavyweight property assets,...
Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated By Stanley Bing Collins Publishing, 260 pages, $21.95 --- Crazy bosses are nearly impossible to work for. Fear not, they can be dealt with, says Stanley Bing, pseudonym of Gil Schwartz, CBS' head of...
ROME , I NC . by Stanley Bing W. W. Norton, $14.95, pp. 197, ISBN 9780393060263 Protests against international business are nothing new. Probably the wittiest, and certainly the most brutal, took place long before the first trashing of a Starbucks, way back in the early 1st century...
Byline: Christine Williamson NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley Investment Management's three deals in three days might just be a record for an asset management firm. On successive days starting Oct. 30, New York-based MSIM announced it was taking minority stakes in two...
Edited by Joel Topcik CBS' Schwartz Cleans Up Bing's BS, Again Joel Topcik Reading the press release naming Quincy Smith as president of the newly formed CBS Interactive last week (see Take Five, p....
Byline: Marianne Paskowski Author Stanley Bing-aka Gil Schwartz, CBS's press czar-is at it again, leaving nearly no media position unscathed in his latest tome, "100 Bullshit Jobs ... And How to Get Them.'' It's a quick, fun feed. In a nutshell, delegation,...
Byline: Stephen Roach (Roach is the chief economist at Morgan Stanley.) The world has never seen such big spenders. In the United States, private consumption accounts for 70 percent of the economy, far more than in Japan (57 percent), Europe (54 percent) or...
Creating a list of outstanding players - one meant to predict who is going to do great things, alter the industry forever or bomb - isn't easy. We could have easily picked the heads of 10 different brokerages - from Merrill's Bob McCann to Commonwealth's Joe ...
Rome Inc By Stanley Bing Wiley, $36.95 Bing has the uncommon virtue of taking neither business nor history too seriously. He is interested in the idea of the Roman Empire as a proto-multinational corporation, following a curve of innovative beginnings, aggressive expansion, building of the brand, then loss of...
100 BULLSHIT JOBS ...And How to Get Them By Stanley Bing Collins Pp: 297 Price: Rs 605 I don't know about you, but I always read Fortune's back pagefirst. Regular readers of that iconic American magazine will knowStanley Bing's While You Were Out column, an irreverent take oncorporate life,...
Hualalai Resort--Plan A, Kona, Hawaii THE BEST HOUSES ARE DESIGNED WITH their site in mind, but when it comes to a site as glorious as a 10,000-square-foot lot in a primo Hawaiian resort, that connection is doubly important. Given the fantastic weather there,...
Byline: Michele Greppi For a good time, call Gil Schwartz ... and ask him to warble one of the country-fried ditties he performed at the CBS affiliates meeting last week in Las Vegas. The communications executive VP has a wicked sense of...
Byline: T. L. STANLEY Advertisers want to seize control of branded entertainment. That finding emerged from a survey of senior-level executives from blue-chip marketers including Volkswagen, Burger King, MasterCard, Apple, Coca-Cola, Nestle and Anheuser-Busch conducted exclusively for Advertising Age...
