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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What Would Ben Stein Do? Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Life

By Ben Stein
John Wiley & Sons October 2011

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ISBN-13
9781118038178
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication
October 2011
Format
Hardback , 224 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Marriage: A Big, Big Deal

Chapter 2: Character Is Your Most Important Product And Work Is A Life Or Death Matter

Chapter 3 Work = Character

Chapter 4: Work Is Not The Same As Looking For Work

Chapter 5: Personality, No Divas Wanted

Chapter 6: Getting Along In Marriage Is Not Easy–It's A Job

Chapter 7: Tipping

Chapter 8: Work Is A Gift From God

Chapter 9 The Need To Save Money Is Life Or Death

Chapter 10 There Are Few Guarantees

Chapter 11: Your Beloved Parents

Chapter 12: Does Death Really Come As The End? Maybe Not.

Chapter 13: Friendship Is Golden

Chapter 14: Don't Be Late!

Chapter 15: Do Not Cross Other People's Borders Without Being Invited In

Chapter 16: I Am Just Like You Only I Am Me

Chapter 17 You Are Not At The Center Of The Universe

Chapter 18 The Next Indicated Action

Chapter 19 You Are What You Drive

Chapter 20: The Absolutely Fastest Surest Way To Get Rich Quick

Chapter 21 Silence Is Golden

Chapter 22 Gratitude, Revisited

Chapter 23 A Day To Remember

Chapter 24 Save And Beware

Chapter 25 Play It Safe

Chapter 26 Be Nice

Chapter 27 Online Learning And Where We Are Right Now

Chapter 28 Progress Not Perfection

Chapter 29 Education – To Be Read Or Not To Read

Chapter 30 The Good Side Of Drugs

Chapter 31 To The Tables Down At Mory's

Chapter 32 Tax Policy

Chapter 33 Benjyrama

About the Author

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.

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