Rome, Inc. Audiobook By Stanley Bing cover art

Rome, Inc.

The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation

 Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Rome, Inc.

By: Stanley Bing
Narrated by: Kerin McCue
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.19

Buy for $17.19

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

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 Ancient Economic History Economics Forecasting & Strategic Planning Management & Leadership Rome Business City Italy Witty
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
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.

pretty meh

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The writing is engaging. A fun listen.The narrator is entertaining and kept the story flowing.

Business is Business

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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.

Clever and funny

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Any additional comments?

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.

Predictable corporate humor for the witless

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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.

Simply awful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.