Stanley Bing
Every senior officer I know is faking it about 30% of the time. A significant chunk of the time they’re going to look it up later, and they don’t want to appear ignorant. There is a time you can ask stupid questions, but that’s after you’ve established an aura of intelligence.
Content: Quotation | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
Stanley Bing
If there is one skill that makes you non-fungible in a business environment, it’s being able to write. There are literally thousands of people who can manipulate numbers, but in any organization there are literally three or four people who can actually write, who can convey complicated ideas.
Content: Quotation | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Skills
On Beyond Newton
Fortune columnist Stanley Bing humorously applies Netownian mechanics to the world of business to explain among other things how a person’s height, cost of suit, size of office and number of direct reports equates to his power.
Content: Article | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Amusement / Leisure