Who Moved My Soap?: The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison: The Bernie Madoff Edition

by Andy Borowitz

Attention,Finally, a book you don't have to cook!If you're a CEO who's just been caught, this is the book you won't want to be caught without. Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison is loaded with helpful tips,How to go from "bitch" to "boss" in one week or lessThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective PrisonersComplete prison-slang/corporate-speak glossaryPrison cell feng shuiHow to avoid getting back-stabbed -- literallyThe Zagat guide to fine prison dining

Genres: Humor

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Andy Borowitz is an award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard College, where he became President of the Harvard Lampoon. In 2001, he created “The Borowitz Report,” a satirical news column, which has millions of readers around the world. As a storyteller, he hosted “Stories at the Moth” from 1999 to 2009. As a comedian, he has played to sold-out venues around the world, including during his national tour, “Make America Not Embarrassing Again,” from 2018 to 2020. His latest book, Profiles In Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber, was an instant New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Indiebound bestseller, and was named one of the seven best nonfiction books of fall 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. He is the first-ever winner of the National Press Club’s humor award. He lives with his family in New Hampshire.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

In 2002 the book "Who Moved My Cheese" became a national bestseller. It had CEOs everywhere praising literature. It had my dad giving me an enthusiastic book review during the drive home. It had lessons about coping with change in the workplace.

I ended up at Uncle Bob's house a few years later and was sitting alone in his basement with nothing to do. The coffee table was a messy shelf of magazines, and one book: Who Moved my Chees? I devoured it in a few hours. Hem and Haw moved their way into my impressionable heart and into my dad/daughter conversation repertoire.

So at work this book came accross the desk, and it seemed relevant in so many ways. It took me four chapters to realize that is was not real, that it had been written by a humor columnist. It took me ten chapters to stop feeling angry. The whole thing was rather trivializing, and I can't stand for that kind of nonsense. Especially this close to home.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

A humorous short read! I couldn't help but think of B. Madoff as I was reading this...

[MajinFox · Rating 1 out of 5]

OPINIA Z 21 PAŹDZIERNIKA 2009

Dalsze podtytuły to: "Jak przetrwać więzienne lata. Podręcznik dla dyrektorów generalnych".

Poradnik pisany jest w pierwszej osobie przez skorumpowanego dyrektora generalnego, który pokazuje nam w 11 rozdziałach między innymi: jak urządzić celę zgodnie z feng shui, przewodnik po stołówkach, jak radzić sobie pod prysznicem, jak założyć własną firmę w więzieniu i inne ciekawe rzeczy, które przyszłym dyrektorom na pewno wkrótce będą potrzebne (w końcu żaden nie jest bez winy).

Prześmiewcza, krytykująca menedżerów wyższego szczebla, którzy wegetują na wysokich stanowiskach. Główny bohater to osoba, która wykorzystuje Sześć Sigma, a nie zarządzanie jakością w swoim nowym przedsiębiorstwie stworzonym w więzieniu. Dlaczego? Bo zarządzanie jakością rozumie tylko w 19%, a Sześć Sigma już w 29%!

Książeczka zawiera 100 stron i nie ma nawet czasu się nudzić. Jak ktoś lubi satyrę, która może nie powoduje płakania ze śmiechu, ale jest na pewno na dobrym poziomie. Wszystko napisane w inteligentny sposób, głupie opisy zawierają wskazówki, jakie warto wykorzystać w perswazji, motywacji i zarządzaniu. Podsumowując, bardzo ciekawie napisana pozycja, nie tylko dla studentów zarządzania i ekonomii.


OPINIA Z 15 MAJA 2010

Być może, gdybym poczekał jeszcze kilka godzin z napisaniem tamtej recenzji, nie musiałbym się teraz tłumaczyć. Doszły mnie słuchy, że jest to parodia książki, po którą raczej jeszcze długo bym nie sięgnął. Tytuł to "Kto zabrał mój ser?". I to chyba było gwoździem do trumny. Jak jeszcze z początku myślałem, że to świeży pomysł, to oceniałem to jako próbującą być śmieszną książeczką o zarządzaniu. Teraz jest to nieśmieszna parodia tego typu książek.

A jedną z rzeczy, która mnie bardzo irytuje, to nieśmieszna parodia. Studenckie żarciki są fajne, póki nie trzeba za nie płacić.


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[richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

First comment: This is NOT the 'Bernie Madoff Edition'. Obviously not - this edition was published in 2003, five years before the Madoff scandal broke. Best as I can tell the updated version must have been published in 2009, but the publisher used the same ISBN.

The central conceit is that CEOs on their way to prison need a self-help guide. I was moved to buy this because I like Andy Borowitz's comedy in the New Yorker, which is often much edgier than the standard twitter or SNL take-downs. Unfortunately the central conceit struggles to carry the book across 84 pages, and while there were enough good jokes to keep me reading to the end, there were times it was clear he struggled. There are some clear references to white collar scandals going on at the time, e.g. Martha Stewart, but perhaps some of the edge that comes from jokes about up-to-the-minute scandals has been blunted by the passage of time. The book is best when the we get to recognize the self-deception of the fictional CEO doing the narrating.

[Duane · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoy Borowitz's subtle humor and this book is a gem for that. Meant to be a survival guide for recently imprisoned CEO's, this book take the recent jailed through a step by step guide in how not only to survive prison, but to excel! Although by the end I'd found the book rushed, the beginning was very funny. It's a small book, so a quick read is possible. Not meant to be a laugh out loud book, but rather a book that makes you smile because you know it's so true. A nice read for adult readers.

[Patreesha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dated. So dry humored it's brittle.

[Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of author Andy Borowitz's dry humor. However, even though the book was short (84 pages), the joke just got a little old.

[michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

The man is a satirist of the first order.

Satire has always been a great favourite of mine. Authors like Mark Twain, Joseph Heller and George Bernard Shaw among others. Andy Borowitz's work in the New Yorker is one of the reasons for my subscription. Well worth the time and little bit of money. Thank you Mr. Borowitz.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Actually, you've been fooled, you might think this is a joke book, but it's not.

It's actually a bunch of aphorisms and meta-jokes that only appear funny on the surface.

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however i get the odd feeling something might be a bit lacking in this book, like a PJ O'Rourke book with a missing chapter.

or a PJ O'Rourke book with no missing pages.

[Zuhair Mahmoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny

In this very funny narrative, the author makes fun of corporate America by comparing it to prison life, or perhaps comparing prison life with corporate America. Highly recommend.

[Marita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd read anything by Andy Borowitz - he's witty, hilarious, and his politics and mine are fully aligned. In this book he writes from the perspective of an imprisoned CEO who is giving survival tips to other imprisoned CEOs. Short, funny, a tiny bit dated, but worth the read.

[Stacy · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF

[Jo Ann]

I'm not, in fact, reading this version but the original is so old it's not on here. Close enough!

[DURTY · Rating 3 out of 5]

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