Ben Stein

What Would Ben Stein Do?

Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781118038178
• ISBN-10: 1118038177
• Artikelnr.: 33401868

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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