What Would Ben Stein Do?

Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Life
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-03817-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Ben Stein's experience from Washington to Hollywood - and everywhere in between-- makes him the ideal individual to offer advice to others. His expertise in countless fields make his valuable, keen observations - that cover the range of topics and challenges that most people face every day -- the perfect topic for his next book, What Would Ben Stein Do?: It's a question we'd all be wise to ask ourselves when contemplating an array of issues in both business and life: What Would Ben Stein Do.
* About a 401(k)?
* When traveling in a country where he didn't know the language?
* Performing a job he was rapidly outgrowing?
* Trapped in a struggling relationship?
* Negotiating a pay increase?
* Job hunting in a difficult economy?

Delivered with the dry, honest wit that millions of people have come to know and love, Ben Stein's next work What Would Ben Stein Do? will provide advice on any question imaginable - from the man who has all the answers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Marriage: A Big, Big Deal 1

2. Character Is Your Most Important Product, and Work Is a Life or Death Matter 5

3. Work = Character 9

4. Work Is Not the Same as Looking for Work 13

5. Personality, No Divas Wanted 19

6. Getting Along in Marriage Is Not Easy––It’s a Job 27

7. Tipping 41

8. Work Is a Gift from God 47

9. The Need to Save Money Is Life or Death 57

10. There Are Few Guarantees 61

11. Your Beloved Parents 67

12. Does Death Really Come as the End? Maybe Not 71

13. Friendship Is Golden 77

14. Don’t Be Late! 81

15. Do Not Cross Other People’s Borders without Being Invited In 87

16. I Am Just Like You, Only I Am Me 93

17. You Are Not at the Center of the Universe 99

18. The Next Indicated Action 103

19. You Are What You Drive 107

20. The Absolutely Fastest, Surest Way to Get Rich Quick 115

21. Silence Is Golden 121

22. Gratitude, Revisited 125

23. A Day to Remember 129

24. Save and Beware 135

25. Play It Safe 141

26. Be Nice 145

27. Thoughts on the Economic Morass and How to Get Out of It 149

28. Progress, Not Perfection 155

29. Education—To Read or Not to Read 159

30. The Good Side of Drugs 169

31. To the Tables Down at Mory’s 177

32. Tax Policy 187

33. Benjyrama 195

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

BEN STEIN, a graduate of Yale Law School, worked as a trial lawyer and a poverty lawyer. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture and law and economics at American University; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Pepperdine University. He was a speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, a bestselling author several times over, a teacher of finance, a screenwriter, a novelist, and has also enjoyed a career as an actor, most notably for his role as the droning teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, recently ranked one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film. In short, Ben Stein is a man who has lived, and one would do well to heed his advice.