Stanley Bing

Bing first made his appearance in ESQUIRE Magazine in 1983, writing scurrilous things about his employers and those of his friends, and giving strategic advice to those even more befuddled than he. Rather than risk expulsion from his crabby corporate environment, he created a new name under which he could observe and criticize the executive class while at the same time aspiring to its lifestyle. This strategy has to all intents and purposes succeeded, and today Mr. Bing snipes at the hand that feeds him while functioning as an ultra-haute executive vice president at a huge multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst kept secrets in business.

In 1995, Bing moved to Fortune magazine where he now writes under the subtle headline BING!? During this time he underwent a curious transition, gradually becoming one of the executive class at which he previously directed his irreverent commentary. His work has also regularly appeared over the years in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Daily News Sunday Magazine, and a host of women’s and computer magazines. He has also appeared as a regular commentator on NPR.

At the lecture podium, Bing's satirical take on the corporate environment is as insightful as it is humorous. With topics derived from a long and extremely successful career with CBS, Bing offers a unique perspective on thought leadership. He draws on the observations made during his rise in the corporate culture and not only teaches employees to think outside the box, but teaches executives how to manage this type of thinking as well. Proving that creativity is rewarded in corporate America, his unique viewpoint will be a benefit to both the executive class and the employees working to achieve that level. With Bing's distinctive viewpoint, the audience will not only learn how to get ahead in business, but they will laugh while they are doing it.

Bing’s most recent book, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War, was published in the fall of 2004. You Look Nice Today, a novel, and The Big Bing, a book of essays, were both published in 2003. Prior to that, Bing published the national best-seller Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up. His previous book was the best-selling What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meaness, published by HarperBusiness. Bing has been featured in Time Magazine and appeared on the CBS Early Show, Imus in the Morning, CBS’s Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto and many other national programs.

Bing is also the author of the books Bizwords: Power Talk for Fun and Profit; Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them (reissued by HarperCollins in the spring of 2004); and Lloyd: What Happened, a novel with accompanying computer graphics. Lloyd tracks one year in the life of a middle manager who, in becoming a very senior officer of his corporation, also becomes sort of a rotten person. Fortune called Lloyd ‘a rollicking saga of a megadeal run amok,’ and reiterated its support by publishing an excerpt from the book – the first fiction to appear in the magazine in over fifty years. It is currently in development for television by Tom Hanks’ production company, Playtone.