Stanley Bing Quote
Six months later, when the cutbacks were all done, the Chief Executive Officer fired this very same hatchet man with exactly the same words. What a bastard, said the CEO to himself as he started the search for a new second banana, a search he didn’t actually have time to complete before his new bosses at the hedge fund took him out, a step that cost them $147 million in severance but that they still considered a good investment. What a bunch of losers, said the hedge fund officers. And then they had lunch.
Stanley Bing
Six months later, when the cutbacks were all done, the Chief Executive Officer fired this very same hatchet man with exactly the same words. What a bastard, said the CEO to himself as he started the search for a new second banana, a search he didn’t actually have time to complete before his new bosses at the hedge fund took him out, a step that cost them $147 million in severance but that they still considered a good investment. What a bunch of losers, said the hedge fund officers. And then they had lunch.
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Gil Schwartz (May 20, 1951 – May 2, 2020), known by his pen name Stanley Bing, was an American business humorist and novelist. He wrote a column for Fortune magazine for more than twenty years after a decade at Esquire magazine. He was the author of thirteen books, including What Would Machiavelli Do? and The Curriculum, a satirical textbook for a business school that also offers lessons on the web. Schwartz was senior executive vice president of corporate communications and Chief Communications Officer for CBS.