Jam-packed with new anecdotes, updated references, and modernized jokes, Stanley Bing’s seminal investigation of what makes bosses crazy is now revised for a new generation. Fans of television’s The Office and the cult film Office Space will love this classic guide to the universal workplace phenomenon of crazy bosses, now updated for a new century’s worth of insane supervisors. Bestselling author and business guru Stanley Bing’s Crazy Bosses identifies the various types of crazy bosses—the boss with the five brains, the bully, the paranoid boss, the narcissist, the “bureaucrazy,” and the disaster hunter—and offers readers concrete strategies on how to cope, and, most importantly, how not to become crazy bosses themselves. But how do you survive the madness without becoming a monster yourself? Dealing with Difficult People: Learn to spot the five types of crazy bosses in their natural habitat—from The Bully and The Paranoid to The Narcissist—before they strike. - Workplace Humor: A sharply funny take on corporate culture that will feel deeply familiar to any fan of The Office or Office Space . - Coping Strategies: Get concrete, actionable advice on how to manage your manager, navigate office politics, and protect your sanity. - Leadership Skills: Discover the most important lesson of all: how to wield power and authority without becoming the kind of crazy boss you’ve always hated. “No one understands corporate war better, or makes it funnier, than Stanley Bing.” - Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life “A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments.” - USA Today “A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace.” - Neil Cavuto, Fox News "Nobody pricks corporate balloons better than Stanley Bing." - New York Post "Bing is fearless." - Dallas Morning News "If there is one elemental law that guides Bing, it is that of the jungle." - Wall Street Journal "With sly humor, Bing offers alternative strategies to conquering any industry provided you are willing to forsake sentiment, human decency, and if need be, close family members." - Time magazine "Bing is hilarious!" - Don Imus Since the latter part of the century just past, Stanley Bing has been exploring the relationship between authority and madness. In one bestselling book after another, reporting from his hot-seat as an insider in a world-renowned multinational corporation, he has tried to understand the inner workings of those who lead us and to inquire why they seem to be powered, much of the time, by demons that make them obnoxious and dangerous, even to themselves. In What Would Machiavelli Do? , Bing looked at the issue of why mean people do better than nice people, and found that in their particular form of insanity lay incredible power. In Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up , he offered a spiritual path toward managing the unruly executive beast. And in Sun Tzu Was a Sissy , he taught us how to become one of them, and wage war on the playing field that ends in a dream home in Cabo. Now he returns to his roots to offer the last word on the entity that shapes our lives and stomps through--and on--our dreams: The Crazy Boss. Students of Bing--and there are many, secreted inside tortured organizations, yearning for blunt instruments with which to fight--will note that he has walked this ground before, looking for answers. In 1992, he published the first edition of Crazy Bosses , which was fine, as far as it went. Now, some 15 years and several dozen insane bosses later, he has updated and rethought much of the work. Back in the last century, Bing was a small, trembling creature, looking up at those who made his life miserable and analyzing the mental illness that gave them their power. Today, while still trembling much of the time, he is in fact one of those people his prior work has warned us against. His own hard-won wisdom and now institutionalized dementia make this new edition completely fresh and indispensable to anyone who works for somebody else or lives with somebody else, or would like to. In short, Bing is back on his home turf in this funny, true, and essential book, peering with his keen and frosty eye at the crazy boss in all his guises: the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp, and the self-destructive Disaster Hunter. If you loved the original, classic Crazy Bosses , you'll be thrilled to plunge back into the new, refurbished pool. If you are new to the book, strap yourself in: it's going to be a crazy ride. --Don Imus Since the latter part of the century just past, Stanley Bing has been exploring the relationship between authority and madness. In one bestselling book after another, reporting from his hot-seat as an insider in a world-renowned multinational corporation, he has tried to understand the inner workings of those who lead us and to inquire why they seem to be powered, much of the time, by demons that make