This Paperback Book item from Quirk Books was reviewed on 11-Oct-2008.
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1) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. The Spy´s Guide to Office Espionage is a very practical guide to what less-than-ethical techniques are used in corporate espionage. It doesn´t purport to instruct anyone on how to tap an undersea cable or launch a satellite, but it does an excellent job of giving advice on various practical techniques (read: no James Bond equipment) to find out what you need/want to know about your competitor/enemy.¤ 2) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. I grabbed this book on Amazon with my expectations very high. When this book arrived I read it in one night! A must-read this book talks about how to become a real office spy and experiences of other spies. I wish there was one about home espionage.¤ 3) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. I picked up a copy of this title from a local Barnes & Noble bookstore. Oddly enough, the title was shelved in the humor section, which didn´t make much sense to me as the book isn´t particularly entertaining but takes a rather serious, right-to-the-point approach to the business of using questionable means to further your career.
The Spy´s Guide: Office Espionage will tech you how to: take an impression of a key for duplication, secure a hotel room, check your conference room for bugs, bug a conference room, reassemble shredded documents, copy documents without leaving a trace as to what copier was used, conceal objects in a bottle of water, sneak into a tradeshow without being noticed, use your cell phone to your advantage, make untraceable phone calls and faxes, keep your private conversations private and much more.
As slim as this volume is, it is surprisingly through and complete. For your average working stiff, this will be more than adequate for taking your game to the next level.¤ 4) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. Anybody who works in business or in an office should get this book. Even if you don´t use everything in it, other people may be using the methods it contains. If you know what´s goin on, you have the upper hand. There´s at least 1 thing in here that everyone can use, and that 1 thing I´m sure would be worth your $10 investment.¤ 5) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. I firmly believe that not all books are meant to be taken seriously. This is a horrible thing for a book critic to admit, no? I mean, how can I be unbiased in my reviews if I think some books should be regarded in more esteem than others? There are some books that are created for little more than pleasure. I don´t think these books serve a lesser purpose. I think that grocery store romance novels provide entertainment and possible delight to their readers. Someone I know once purchased a connect-the-dots book of pornography to give as a birthday gift. That book possibly offered hours of entertainment. Every time I graduate, someone gives me an inspirational book of quotes. Sure, some of them are good, but after a quick read through, what am I supposed to do with it? Tape the quotes to my bathroom mirror? Um, no. The Spy´s Guide to Office Espionage by H. Keith Melton and Craig Piligian with Duane Sweirczynski offers little more than brief entertainment. (I suppose for people who are truly set on bugging their co-workers, it also acts as a convenient How To guide.) In The Spy´s Guide, readers learn how to booby-trap their briefcase (because so many of us use those anymore...), monitor co-worker´s hours, read a competitor´s laptop and communicate with invisible inks. Good stuff, right? My main issue with The Spy´s Guide is that I got better advice watching reruns of Get Smart on Nick at Nite. Most of the tips given by the authors, retired CIA and KGB spies, are good only if you are seriously neurotic about the behavior of your co-workers or professional competitors, or have the extra time to spend following them around, sending anonymous emails and protecting your trash. What makes The Spy´s Guide an entertaining read though are the real life stories by the retired spies where they account instances of using the tips they impart in this book. Fortunately, these "Spies at Work" segments occur with regular frequency. (By the end of the book, these were the only sections I read, because frankly, I ain´t looking through anyone´s trash. And for people who want to look through mine? Have fun.) One funny tip I enjoyed was going to a meeting where some negotiating will take place. Before entering, call yourself on one cell phone and when you answer, leave both phones on. Mid-way through negotiations, go to the bathroom, accidentally leaving one phone on the table with your notebook. While in the bathroom, listen on the other phone to what is occurring in the meeting in your absence. This could help you throw out the right salary, offer, etc. Another fun tip was to conceal things in water bottles. The hidden object would be surrounded by water and a the bottled water´s label. What makes this funny is that housewives have been doing this for years - hiding mad money in jars of beans with a cavity in the middle. Heck, in seventh and eighth grade my friends and I used to pass notes to each other concealed in pens, instead of having in k in the pen. What teacher could fault you for borrowing a pen when you ink ran out? Is The Spy´s Guide to Office Espionage worth your time to read? Probably not. Is it a funny gift to give to someone else? Definitely. It´s best use though is to have it lying around the office. I told my boss what I was reviewing and you should have seen the look on his face!¤ 6) Paperback Book The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage by Quirk Books. In today´s business world, information is everything - and no one gathers information more effectively than spies. So why not bring real spying techniques into your workplace? The same tactics used by CIA and KGB agents can also be used at offices and corporations of any size - and these techniques will help you get ahead fast! The Spy´s Guide: Office Espionage features illustrated step-by-step instructions on tapping phones, sending anonymous e-mails, disguising your identity at a trade show, and much more. The authors also share real-life stories about how these tactics have been employed by professional spies in the CIA, KGB, Fortune 500 companies, and other settings. Advance your career with espionage!¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 8-Nov-2008, 19316866029781931686600, 750-480-580-370-701-021-8 
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