How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book)
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune is a humorous 1952 book by Shepherd Mead. It inspired a successful 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which was made into a movie in 1967.
Description
The book is a satire of an instructional manual, very similar in form and subject matter to Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship. How to Succeed satirizes office life in the United States in the guise of a self-help book. Its subtitle is "The Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune".
Inspiration
How to Succeed was inspired by Mead's corporate experiences at the
Musical adaptation
In 1961, the book was adapted into
The musical was a smash hit, with a Broadway run of 1,417 performances between October 1961 and March 1965. It won eight Tony Awards and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for best drama. It was adapted into a movie, also starring Morse and Vallee with Anthony 'Scooter' Teague as Frump, in 1967. It was successfully revived on Broadway in 1995, starring Matthew Broderick as Finch, and again in 2011 with Daniel Radcliffe playing the role. Then in 2012, Darren Criss played the role of Finch for a three-week engagement, and was replaced by Nick Jonas who took the lead until the show closed on May 20, 2012.[1]
Classification
The Library of Congress catalogs the 1995 reprint as non-fiction under "business books", with the subject headings "Success in business", "Management", and "Career development".[2]
Editions
- Mead, Shepherd (1952). How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. (1-hour loan). New York: Simon & Schuster.
- London: Cedar Book, 1955 (reprint)
- New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 (reprint), and 2011 (reprint)
References
- ^ "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". Playbill. Archived from the original on December 26, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ^ "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink 52012031". Library of Congress. Retrieved 5 January 2012.