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The author comments on the utilization of fraud, cheating and lying as a strategy which he addresses to the young who will venture into business, sports or professional life. He satires of benefits from cases including alleged bribery of officials of the FIFA, acquittal of French presidential aspirant Dominique Strauss-Khan for pimping and Russian President Vladimir's incursion into Eastern European neighbors.

The author looks at food and nutrition trends, expressing concern about various attitudes and movements that he says are taking the joy and pleasure out of eating. Topics include people opposed to eating meat, those who focus exclusively on the vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional elements in foods, and those who believe no alcoholic beverages should be consumed at lunch.

The author reflects on a study published in the "American Journal of Preventive Medicine" that found that sitting for long periods of time increases the likelihood of dying early. Topics include the author's sedentary lifestyle; a list of other factors the author suggests might be harmful, such as worrying, problem solving, and boredom; the need to sit to work in an office environment.

The author discusses the habit of business executives to leave their positions in order to spend more time with their family. Topics include details on chief financial officer (CFO) Patrick Pichette of Internet corporation Google and his decision to leave the company in order to make more plans with his family, details on the author's friend's experience leaving his job and taking up golf, and speculation on whether quitting one's job actually allows someone to spend more time with their family.

The article discusses common characteristics among the firms selected for the publication's list of the 100 best companies to work for. These companies all have strong leaders, they enforce accountability with rewards and punishments, they enjoy good camaraderie among their workers, and they are supportive of healthful activities such as road races.

The article humorously presents opinions about people's feelings toward privacy in the guise of a report on that subject from a fictitious company. The report says people in the 25-54 age demographic care most about privacy, while those who spend the greatest amount of time using social media care about privacy the least. It is stated that concern about privacy rises with affluence. Privacy is a low priority among those who make a living from big data, it is noted.

The author humorously discusses the various Internet-connected, "smart" devices he claims to own including an automobile that criticizes his technique when he tries to park it himself, and a refrigerator that admonishes him against eating unhealthy foods.

Focuses on activities of U.S. President Bill Clinton on his visit to Chappaqua in New York. Information on Clinton's wandering around the town all by himself in the middle day with a large dog and a shot gun on his shoulder; Behavior of the President at country golf club; Reference to the clandestine meetings of Hillary Clinton, President's wife, with the Democrats.

Presents a satirical essay purportedly from a citizen in the year 2999, discussing his disgust with technological advances of the day. Computer links implanted directly into the human brain; Mandatory downloading of information; Control of the world by one governing body; The inability to do anything physical.

Discusses the qualities that the author feels he has that would make him the ideal candidate to fill a female columnist position at 'Fortune.' Feelings he has about his weight; Relationship with other people; The author's love of gossip.

Describes how the author is able to get through a day at work when he is exhausted. Getting ready for work; Why he prefers to drive to work when he is tired; Description of his day at work; What he does when he goes home.

Offers the author's experience in buying an automobile. Attitudes of salesmen at dealership, including Ford and Audi; His happiness in choosing a Chevrolet Camaro Z28.

Presents information humorously on how to survive a merger as depicted through a slide show with graphics. Each slide having a topic such as living and succeeding in a merged company; How to be a winner; Question of who the boss is.

Reports the author's humorous musings on the physics of business. His discussion of the physics of Isaac Newton; Translation of Newton's theory about force, mass and acceleration into the business world; Author's calcuations of his own and his boss' mass, acceleration and power.

Focuses on the relationship between employees and their employers as corporate executives. The respect of the author for those who refuse to participate in office politics; A test to discover those employees who are willing to play.

Details the frustration of attempts at cellular telephone communication during a morning commute. Difficulties presented by telephone size, battery life, and signal quality; Responses to recorded messages and telephone tag.

The article discusses the experiences of the author about the art of Crastination. The author says that what he has done pushes the boundaries of an essential business art into a region formerly unoccupied by anyone with any serious intention of doing anything. He added that bowling is the most important sport for Post-Crastinators. The author has lifted this old art to unprecedented heights.

Scrutinizes the art of schmoozing. Decline in the use of small talk; Contents of an Internet sales pitch; Author's experience at a lunch meeting; Speed of the meeting; Advice on conducting a working lunch.

Contemplates the author's cultivation of a Christmas cactus through changes in his career. Locations and offices; Survival of periods of neglect.

Offers serious and humorous advice to business school graduates. Topics such as food, drink, exercise, clothing, employment, learning to fire people, being kind, and reading; Golf as a lifestyle.

Comments on business travel. Early arrival of the airport limo; Meeting agenda; Problems with the limo; Problems at the airport; Complaints about on-board service; Annoyance at the restaurant; Problems at the hotel; Results of the meeting.

Parodies periodical features saluting actors and athletes with a presentation on business leaders in telecommunications, entertainment, computing, music and other industries.

Presents etiquette tips for senior executives. Ask about other people's lives/interests/thoughts; Do not forget to listen to what people say; Say please and thank you, even when it is not necessary.

Satirizes the author's response to an acquaintance's financial success with an Internet-related business enterprise.

Presents a business fable based on the story of the Grasshopper and the Ant. The grasshopper as a corporate executive whose job was to cover up or explain away difficult facts; Van Zaant, the ant, as an executive whose job was to get at the facts of a situation; The two executives' opposite goals; How they finally came to mutual understanding.

Focuses on the possible reasons for idiotic underdressing of some people. Fact that the signs of incipient psychosis is the inability to dress appropriately; Inability of the people to buy new overcoats to wear in winter; Possibility that the person is wearing long underwear; Probability that those people have been contacted by space aliens and are quickly moving to a central collection point that has no coat closet, to be transported to a better planet than the Earth.

Takes a humorous look at how the Internet has become a part of everyday life. How the Internet has extended into every part of one's life; The abundance of Web pages available for day to day living.

Details imaginary illnesses that provide excuses for different types of corporate behavior. Illnesses that cause forgetting of names, physical awkwardness, overusage of electronic mail, procrastination and other syndromes.

Presents the author's view on the spending habits of people in the United States in the late 1990s. Desire to own popular items such as Nintendo Game Boys; Reaction of most when stores sell out of such items; The obsession to spend; More.

Muses on offering advice about investing in the stock market. Investments for the bear or bull market; Blue chips or undervalued chips; High technology companies; Telecommunications; The issue of long bonds as opposed to short ones; So-called lifestyle securities.

Reflects on changes in the United States corporate culture between 1971 and 1998. Facilities; Role of women; Communication technology; Office equipment; Prices; Expectations.

Offers humorous advice on what one can do when money begins to dry up, due to a slowdown in the economy, and the activities they will replace. Conversation will replace a $500 evening at the theater; Stamp collecting will replace cigars; Poker will replace investing in the stock market; Driving will replace being driven.

Presents the author's reflections on the pleasure of smoking a cigar and the response of others in his office to his occasional smoking. Cigar smoking as one of few permissible vices; Speculation that was aroused in the office about the author's motives for smoking.

Comments on United States President Bill Clinton's admitted relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Number of Americans who favor impeachment; Those willing to settle for censure; Demands made on those in high positions; Comparison to the conduct of corporate executives and what punishment, if any is given them; How the author feels about impeachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the use of buzzwords in the United States. Claim that vapid use of language is draining our speech of meaning; Erosion of excellence in business; Reasons that buzzwords are so prevalent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parodies economic analysis of late summer 1998 financial turmoil. List of ten hypothetical reasons why the United States stock market should continue to climb, including lack of substantive change, continued growth in earnings, stability of the Russian beet market, and other factors.

Offers a tongue-in-cheek check list of preparations for the Year 2000. Establishing size of the problem, especially of clothes; Identification of which peripherals need to be upgraded, including toothbrushes and stereo equipment; Upgrading of personal software, including facial features; Contact with vendors to ensure Y2K compliance, including the letter carrier and the person who cuts the grass; Other preparations.

Recreates the author's experience of getting yelled at while at work. His feelings of shock and injustice, even though the mistake causing the incident was his fault; The difference between inexperienced yellers and really big executives' hollering; His participation in the event; The need to break for a glass of water; Who will receive a few choice words when he returns to work; How he charted and graphed the yelling scenario.

Identifies aspects of life in Los Angeles, California that appeal to the author. A Lincoln Town Car with a driver; The weather; The freeways; The lack of rain; His friend's 12-cylinder Jaguar; Comfortable clothes; Fruit and coffee; Other aspects.

Comments on the retirement of Al Dunlap from senior management in the United States. Senior and middle management of Lily Tulip that was cut by 50 percent by Dunlap; Employees laid off at Crown-Zellerbach by Dunlap; Impact of Dulap at Consolidated Press Holdings; Scott Paper where Dulap laid off one out of every three workers.

Comments with humor on the experience of giving a presentation. The fear that increases as the event grows closer; Ten steps involving the anticipation leading up to the presentation.

Discusses the trend of global firms in buying American brand names. The consortium that the winemakers of Beaujolais, France are forming to purchase the American purveyors of Ripple, the twist-top drink; The plan of the British Broadcasting Corp. to acquire a stake in the American Public Broadcasting System; Pearson LLC's acquisition of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Offers a tongue-in-cheek assessment of how pharmaceutical products affect quality of life. The susceptibility that so many have to the possibility of improvements; The positive effect that has on the prospects for pharmaceutical businesses.

Reflects on the changes, physical, and political that come with the passage of time. Memories that are triggered by an anticipated meeting with a former girlfriend.