Bing explains how business works, and shows how that knowledge can be used to achieve power, happiness, and indefensible amounts of money. From fabricating a sustainable business personality to mastering electronic communications, and dealing with bosses and other crazy people, he shares his secrets-- along with an attractive diploma, suitable for framing.

The core. Not appearing stupid -- Fabricating a business personality -- Selling, marketing, and negotiating -- Managing -- Group dynamics -- Fundaments of power -- The advanced curriculum. Strategic thinking -- On branding yourself -- Crisis management -- Electronic communications -- Crazy people -- Friends, enemies, and frenemies -- In defense of insincerity -- The zen of cosmic boredom -- Insensitivity training -- A short course in ethics -- Tutorials. Care (and feeding) of senior officer -- Town car management -- Giving an effective presentation -- Consultants -- Business metaphor -- Sex at the office -- Drunkenness and other maladies -- Going off the grid -- Leveraging without a lever -- Is there anything you won't do? -- Losing your mojo -- Maintaining mental fitness -- Dealing with feelings of overwhelming entitlement -- Basic wine and whiskey talk, and a brief word on cigars -- Electives. Hotel living -- Boondoggles and other opportunities for public humiliation -- Yelling and screaming -- Basic bullshitting -- Killing people -- Global business and other culture shocks -- Fear and its relation to business performance -- Rationalization & denial (R&D) -- What about love? -- No guts, no glory -- Glossary of key vocabulary -- Your diploma.