• Rome, Inc.

  • The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation
  • By: Stanley Bing
  • Narrated by: Kerin McCue
  • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (42 ratings)

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By: Stanley Bing
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
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New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world’s first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting, and general mismanagement. Rome, Inc. then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don’ts of a successful corporation.

©2006 Stanley Bing (P)2006 Recorded Books

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Simply awful

I get trying to package history to reach a wider audience, but this book is just awful. Maybe if you have your MBA, and want to dip your toe in the waters of history that is packaged to your taste it would be interesting. However, from a historical and relatable point this book does not reveal anything new, and abandons a large amount of the wonder of Rome by seeking to complicate matters and reframing them in a "business sense." Do yourself a favor and avoid this at all costs.

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pretty meh

The book has an amusing backstop, but it's full of inaccuracy and stretching concepts to make them fit under modern corporate concepts. I honestly thought the book was going to be more interesting, but it's really not.

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Predictable corporate humor for the witless

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What could be a really important and interesting topic, that the Roman Empire was a multi-continent moneymaking venture and the first of its kind, is instead a slog through cheap jokes and lame pop culture references.

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Clever and funny

Stanley Bing presents a clever, tongue in cheek humor similar to Monty Python, comparison of the history of Rome and its achievements as well as stumbling blocks to that of modern day business. I found it entertaining and worth the listen.

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