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Reviewer's commment: "Gini Graham Scott's A Survival Guide For Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers From Hell provides practical advice to those saddled with a good job and a terrible manager. What to do? Chapters advise various tactics to dealing with different types of 'bad bosses', from handling a rigid attitude with a demonstration of a more profitable path to opening up possibilities for achievement through back door options and handling rivalry between co-workers. A range of scenarios and techniques will readily apply to real-life scenes workers most commonly experience."
You're Not the Boss of Me: Empowerment Strategies for an Imperfect Workplace 
Reviewer's commment: "A unique and fresh look at life in the workplace. We can all find traits of former bosses in this book. Great strategies to help us working stiffs cope."
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Boss? 13 Types and How to Survive Them. 
"When people know they're being watched, they tend to behave differently—better than they would if they weren't being watched—that's why there isn't much information available about what really goes on in the workplace. So Haight conducted a five-year research study, spying on managers from within their company from 1997 to 2002. She worked as an employee in eleven organizations in various industries across the northeastern and southwestern United States. Because the people she studied did not know they were being watched, this book makes often hidden management misbehavior public knowledge."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: The Author "explains how to spot the signs of bullying, distinguish between a bully and a negative manager, and understand how serious it is-'Of those targeted by bullies, 41 percent were diagnosed with depression and more than 80 percent reported effects that prevented them from being effective at work (severe anxiety, lost concentration, sleeplessness, etc.).' She provides suggestions for dealing with bullies, addresses cases in which legal action might be in order and offers realistic advice for preparing to leave a job ... The tone of the book is appropriate-neither overly sensitive nor dismissive. Anecdotes from victims of workplace bullying underscore the author's points, illustrate bullies' traits and create a framework of support for the reader."
Reviewers/Readers Comments: "Using insights based on a psychological approach, especially Maslow's theories of self-esteem, Lipman-Blumen (The Connective Edge) offers numerous examples in both politics and business of toxic leaders who have survived crises and received accolades despite their obvious flaws... The book's strength is the detailed psychological approach to examining the phenomenon of loyalty to toxic leaders."
Work Smart: The 250 Smart Moves Your Boss Already Knows 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A guide to the unwritten rules of how to think, look, and act at work. Learn how to set and meet goals, handle office politics, master the art of office communication, deal with organizational change, cope with stress and burnout, and more. Whether it's your first day on the job, or your last and you're looking, WORK SMART is an essential advisor."
Managing Multiple Bosses: How to Juggle Priorities, Personalities & Projects, and Make It Look Easy 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Employees may answer to as many as four bosses, each with conflicting priorities and impossible deadlines. Short of cloning themselves or working 18 hours a day, what are overworked staffers to do? The smartest move is to consult this unique book. It's packed with strategies to help anyone handle the pressures of the multi-boss dilemma. Each chapter explores specific responses to multiple demands, such as acting assertively, delegating, managing difficult personalities, and saying no without actually using the word."
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Suzette Haden Elgin, nationally recognized linguistics expert and author, applies her acclaimed techniques for combating verbal violence to common on-the-job situations. Forceful yet non-threatening, her proven strategies will empower workers of every level to recognize verbal abuse, gently defuse it, and replace it with courteous and effective communication."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "a guide to dealing with bullies, backstabbers, incompetents, harassers, and other office offenders. Every office has one...and sometimes, more than one. They can make you dread getting up in the morning even if you like your job-and they can interfere with everyone's efficiency and productivity. Dr. Leonard Felder explains how to deal with them, get the respect you deserve, manage relationships, and keep the workday running smoothly."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book ought to be required reading for every manager on Earth. These two writers from the Gallup Organization base their book on 25 years of surveys, identifying what skills and attitudes separate the best managers from the mediocre multitude. They explain why playing favorites isn't a bad thing, how you need to focus on strengths instead of weaknesses, and why the top managers meet with employees frequently." Special thanks to Dave Murphy at the San Francico Chronicle for suggesting this Book and the preceeding comments.
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Explains techniques that most managers never consider when hiring people. Certainly job interviewing is covered in the book, but he also offers a variety of innovative ways you can learn about candidates through efficient screening, assigning tasks and checking references." Please note that this Book includes "45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart! How to Predict Winners & Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game." Special thanks to Dave Murphy at the San Francico Chronicle for suggesting this Book and the preceeding comments.
Gray Matters : The Workplace Survival Guide 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "None of the insights are new: we all know that people resist change, don't walk the talk, don't understand their business, aren't team players, ad infinitum. But most business books are either too dense to read easily or are too trite to be relative. Gray Matters is in between and comes close to a bulls eye. I especially like its part 3: 'the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins.'"
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a 'Must Have' book for anyone trying to make their way through the nervewracking maze that is Management today. I was pleased to have my questions and concerns addressed seriously, with sound advice, without being bored out of my head by a stuffy writing style."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Best Conflict Book Available. This is the best book on dealing with your fears of conflict every written. Dr. Ursiny speaks in a language that is easy to understand and easy to internalize. Rarely has a book make such a strong impact on the way that I live my life. I will recommend it to everyone."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "His advice may seem obvious to some, but how often is it actually practiced? I shouted "yeah!" to myself over and over as I read a couple chapters of this book. For example: the chapter about rating and rewarding his employees was excellent. For example, giving Class A employees 3x the salary increases over Class B employees-- Great!! Giving NO increases to Class C employees, and getting rid of them sooner rather than later...what can I say, I LOVE IT!!"
Managing Up : How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You 
Reviewer/Reader Feeedback: ""Managing Up" amounts to a practical and entertaining survival guide for those who find themselves somewhere on the food chain to the south of the lion kings of the corporate jungle. The author draws on her fifteen years as executive assistant to the legendary Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, to offer valuable insights, advice, and common sense perspective on what it takes to keep the boss happy, maximally productive, and hugely successful. Despite her admiration for Welch, Rosanne Badowski makes a compelling case for the vitally important role played by "support staff" in keeping business enterprises functioning smoothly."
Work to Live: The Guide To Getting A Life 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a must-read for all Americans! Because most Americans work too much and have very little vacation, they are stressed out, eat too much junk food, don't get enough sleep, have very little leisure time, rarely see their friends, and have little time for their spouse, children and pets!"
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World Of The Psychopaths Among Us 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This work of pop psychology merits attention because Hare has pioneered in the field of psychopathy, which is still in a formative state. Psychopaths, he asserts, are neither sociopaths nor psychotics but rather are people who are well aware of the difference between right and wrong and ignore the distinction. Additionally, they are egocentric and have no feelings of empathy, guilt or remorse. They view others as potential victims, and they leave a trail of unhappiness behind them in those who have succumbed to their deceitful manipulations."
Career Warfare: 10 Rules For Building A Successful Personal Brand And Fighting To Keep It 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a real winner. The author shares shrewd tips on how to disarm the people who hold your career in their hands, how to speak your mind and avoid the workplace mediocrity that so many people settle for. If you are naturally conservative and risk-averse, you are not the kind of person for whom D'Alessandro wrote 'Career Warfare.' Which is why you most definitely need to buy this and then read it several times."
Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career 
Harvard engages leading experts to contribute to this key career resource. Material includes: "Managing Oneself," "The Right Way To Be Fired," and "Managing Your Boss."
The Ethical Imperative: Why Moral Leadership Is Good Business 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Costa [the Author] contends that most businesses are guided by a rational self-interest that blinds them to the consequences of their actions, thus getting them into trouble. He writes, "The badge of rationality is very important to businesspeople because, against it, there can be no criticism." Costa, himself a former CEO, argues that developing a sense of ethics involves more than following a set of rules: it means developing an ethical orientation at all levels and processes of a corporation--not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes for good business. Drawing from an impressive range of subjects and case studies, Costa builds a compelling case for moral leadership in today's corporations. Highly recommended."
101 Salary Secrets : How to Negotiate Like a Pro 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Amazing little book. Never seen such a detailed and consetrated information focused on salary negotiation. Worthed each penny I did spend for it."
Why CEO's Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top and How to Manage Them 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is written much better than most business books: it cuts to the chase, gives good examples, and doesn't go on and on about simple concepts as if you were too stupid to get it the first time. It breaks failure down to 11 mentalities that derail CEOs in their rise to (or fall from) the top. This is great advice for ANY manager or executive, and a quick read too. I take much of this advice to heart when I manage others in my current job. A must read!"
Workplace Privacy: Real Answers and Practical Solutions 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Workplace Privacy: Answers and Practical Solutions helps employers understand both the state and numerous federal laws affecting workplace privacy. While workplace privacy has long been a central issue facing employers, electronic technologies such as the Internet, e-mail and networked computers have added new questions regarding employees' rights to privacy. Monitoring employee behavior now may be more sophisticated with new technologies, but at the same time employers are overwhelmed with a host of new considerations and challenges with regard to employee privacy rights."
Games Mother Never Taught You: Corporate Gamesmanship for Women 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Interesting book which describes the corporate world from a women's perspective and gives advice on career planning and advancement. As a man, I find the book overstates the nature men and of `male' business - not all men are sports jocks. However, the book does contain plenty of good, ruthless, honest advice."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on three years of research, Andrea Adams plots the destructive forces currently eroding the professional lives of many people. By tracing the psychological origins of bullying at work this book investigates the effect of past relationships on the present, providing both individuals and organizations with a deeper understanding of why things can go so badly wrong. Through advice and guidance, it offers a way forward for all those who value the need for psychological well-being at the workplace."
Reviewer Reader Feedback: "While the strategic steps seem initially complex, they are very logical and lead to a positive conclusion: creating a merit-based work environment to replace a culture driven by political posturing. In the end, the company, the employees and the shareholders all benefit. A good read for anyone in business -- especially those who pursue the executive ranks."
The Spy's Guide: Office Espionage 
Read this Book to see how tactics may be used against you.
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book was extremely well-written and to the point. It was so helpful to see the same behaviors I had observed documented in the book. The author not only describes verbal abuse but explains the typical perspective of both the abuser and the abused. Having an understanding of these perspectives is invaluable and key to understanding the dynamics of the verbally abusive relationship. Thankfully the author was not content to stop these, but went on to describe responses to the abuser that have been tested in real world situations."
Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book has an amazing way of unearthing and organizing all those painful feelings you feel if you are being controlled, or "told who or how you are" in a forceful way by another human being. If you have low self-esteem as a result of believing in someone who wants nothing more than to control you, than you need this book to help free yourself from the controller's delusions. Reading Controlling People is more like witnessing, allowing you to experience a huge reality check as you come to realize that you're nowhere near alone, and to trust your own "creative force". The book is genius in its logical explanation of why people become abusers, and, how, if you've been abused, you can find a realistic path toward self-healing."
Sexual Harassment: A Practical Guide to the Law, Your Rights, and Your Options for Taking Action 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "It's hard to believe that sexual harassment is a reality in today's workplace. Unfortunately it is and this book is truly insightful and provides a needed safety net of information for those dealing with this difficult subject. Definitely the best I've seen on this subject."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Excellent source of information for the lay person. Covers topics which apply to situations encounterd daily. Must have background for all supervisors and anyone who prefers to avoid problems instead of solving them."
Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organization Ideal 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If you have read 'The Fifth Discipline', the books of Chris Agyris, and other organizational theory but still thinks something is missing, that they can't really explain how organizations work (but only how they ought to work), this book will get you further. It is not an ends to all means, but definitly an important new consideration....What the book does, is to represent an interesting link from narcissism (the psychological level) to how subordinates and managers interact (the social/organizational level), to how (and which) employes are promoted and thus which values are amplified among top-level managers."
Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I'm not much of a believer in career self-help books. I find most of them to be full of the same old "wisdom," poorly written, and/or so out of touch with what it's like to be a real human being that they are virtually useless. This book is different. It's packed with new ideas, compelling examples, and practical advice on reaching your goals. It's a book with substance and style--one that I'll be recommending to friends and associates again and again. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book."
Getting Promoted: Real Strategies for Advancing Your Career 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Harry Chambers has written a book that really says something. You're career will get a big boost if you follow his guidelines. Yes, I've read a lot of these self-help get-ahead books, but this one cuts to the chase with the correct advice."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Anyone who reads this book will be able to go into salary negotiations with confidence. The straight forward and easy to understand approach the author uses makes this book stand out. I would recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about changing jobs or who believes he or she deserves a raise. This book is a must read for everyone who works for a living."
Building a Culture of Respect: Managing Bullying at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The focus of this study is on the development of organizational cultures that promote the dignity of all employees. These have the power to reduce the occurrences and impact of bullying. This is a collective volume written by a group of experienced academics and practitioners, allowing theory to be integrated with evidence and practice in an approach that can be used to inform organizational management, unions, human resource managers, lawyers, general practitioners, occupational health psychologists and counsellors on the most effective ways of addressing bullying at work."
Fighting Back: Overcoming Bullying in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a practical guide to overcoming bullies in the work place. The biggest cause of workplace stress in the UK is generally acknowledged to be bullying. A recent civil service college survey stated that almost every person in the civil service had been bullied at one time. Taking a simple, straightforward approach, this book looks at how to recognize a bully, how to protect yourself, how to gather evidence, and what steps you should take to avoid it happening in the future."
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence teams up with Richard Boyatzis, previously a CEO of a large company and author of numerous books on management and motivation himself, and Annie McKee from the Wharton School of Business to create this inspirational, engaging, informative, and visionary work on primal leadership. They reveal how understanding the powerful role of emotions can set the best leader apart from all the rest. The encouraging news is that great leadership is learnable. In this book you will learn how the leader has the power to significantly enhance performance of others through his emotional state and actions."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This volume takes an in-depth look at a variety of forms of harassment which occur in the workplace. It explores the impact of harassment on the organization and the individuals concerned. It suggests reasons why people harass, and shows how to create an environment where harassment and bullying cannot thrive. Using case histories and examples, the book covers a wide range of key issues, including: forms of harrassment; the victim's perspective; organizational culture; the cost/tribunals; and prevention and education."
Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: A Guide for Employees, Managers and Employers 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Well written and researched book on all aspects of bullying at work. Definitions of different types of bullying, from sexual harassment to excessive stress are included. Also very good profiles of bullying types, dictators, incompetent managers etc is given. All the classic warning signs that you're being bullied are here. Most importantly though, a list of important options you can consider if you find yourself being bullied are included, from approaching personnel, to joining a union to taking a court case. A great buy for anyone who is stuck in a job where there's constant stress and harassment."
Rude Awakenings : Overcoming the Civility Crisis in the Workplace 
"As a retired operations VP for a firm dealing exclusively with Fortune 500 companies, I was amazed at the insights Gonthier has into the lack of civility so common in today's workplace and into the causes of that lack of civility. And as a consumer and a customer, I was impressed by the breadth of her understanding of the stress and rudeness we all face in today's world and the straightforwardness of her approach to addressing and reducing those problems. While she does have a thorough and extremely helpful chapter on specific breaches of etiquette, this is really not a book on business etiquette. It is about how profitable it would be for all of us if we all treated each other with basic respect."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "In Games Companies Play, Gerry Griffin and Ciaran Parker reveal how to play, and better still, win in the messy, murky and sometimes downright dirty office games that accompany our working lives. Drawing on the methodology explored in The Power Game and further explored in their much sought-after workshops, Games Companies Play is the answer to surviving those bruising and emotional encounters we all experience in our working world."
Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The title is pretty self-explanatory, and the book is a marvelous description of an emerging phenomenon that results from complex and challenging work environments. The notion of toxic organizations isn't new, everyone has a story about one. What is new is the way leaders and managers are trying to deal with toxicity in organizations. As more and more managers develop their authenticity at work, they become more and more open to the swirling currents of emotion that surround them. Mangers who help to manage these currents in organizations become "toxin handlers" and require a whole set of strategies aimed at preserving their health and the health and compassion of the organization."
You Want Me to Do What?: When, Where, and How to Draw the Line at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "DeMars [the author] is practical, practical, practical. She tackles the most confudling dilemmas at work and provides an ethical compass to resolve them. You can always quit,but why not resolve the dilemmas and keep your job,too? I didn't always agree with her, but DeMars got me talking to my coworkers and my boss about what was the best solution-which was exactly DeMars' purpose for writing the book in the first place, I suspect. Yes, sometimes good employees do bad things--so here's what you do when it happens."
Who's Pulling Your Strings?: How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Text exposes the most common methods manipulative people use to control others, and reminds us that it takes at least two people to allow such a relationship to function. Includes self-assessment quizzes, action plans, and how-to exercises to empower you to escape the web of others' control. DLC: Manipulative behavior."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is an important book. I think it is a critical read for anyone who has been abused, used or taken advantage of. It is important for the individual to understand why and how they got to be in the position and how they aquired the 'Disease to Please'."
Tongue Fu! : How to Deflect, Disarm, & Difuse Any Verbal Conflict 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Dealing with difficult people is a part of everyday life. However, by focusing on real-life responses to verbal challenges instead of theories and platitudes, the author has delivered a convenient handbook for the mental martial art of verbal self-protection. Divided into four sections, the book offers techniques and skills for responding thoughtfully in conflicts, expressing honest feelings and goals, seeking cooperation in difficult situations, and living a life of value during trying times. Each of the 30 chapters offers examples that demonstrate the expected goals and acquired skills in action."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The book provides a person with my background (a science nerd turned into a hi-tech manager) well founded, well explained and 100% scientific approach to business communications. It teaches HOW to take 100% responsibility for listening and speaking. It is easy to advice not to react emotionally to what other person says, and everybody does it in their books. In contrast, this book teaches techniques that make emotional reaction unnecessary, without any artificial self control."
U.S. Government on the Web : Getting the Information You Need Second Edition 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "U.S. Government on the Web will point you in the right direction to find all your government related needs. If we have to have a government, we HAVE to HAVE U.S. Government on the Web."
Introduction to United States Government Information Sources 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The book is an excellent resource for genealogists, business researchers, educators-anyone who wants to learn more about the vast and varied store of information the U.S. government makes available. And you don't have to be a doctoral student to use this book: Morehead writes in a clear and concise style; facsimiles of pages from various reference sources are included, so that the newcomer to a source will know what to expect."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Judith Schiek Robinson has updated and expanded this popular guide, which offers a thorough and sometimes humorous tour of government information sources. Her highly readable text explains the intricacies of government information and how to find sources that meet specific research needs. New features in the third edition include detailed coverage of Internet resources, directories of World Wide Web addresses, and quick tips on which government Web sites to search for different types of information. Helpful guides to government abbreviations and citations are also included, as are numerous new tables, user guides, exercises, and illustrations."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A comprehensive and accessible resource for managers and executives, offering sound advice on the legal rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees in the workplace. Shows why employers often get sued and how to avoid it, the crucial role of effective communication in the workplace, discusses the Family and Medical Leave Act, and more."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is an excellent book for general knowledge of the laws which apply to both the employer and the employee. It is well written, reads very easily and would be my choice as a general reference book concerning employment laws. It defines all relavent law terms and, most importantly, provides a guide or reference for additional information about each of the laws governing employment. It should be noted that the book covers federal Laws and not state laws."
How to Defend Yourself from an Abusive Boss: The Formal Complaint Process 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Is your boss abusive or just a jerk? Grievance specialist Healey explains how "abused" employees can end mistreatment in the workplace."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I find it very refreshing when a book gives me permission to use notes of paper rather than a planner, handle paper more than once when it crosses my desk, and allows me to actually have a desk with things on it. Why, they even let you have a junk drawer, or HandyDrawer for those things I just might need someday (as long as I clean it out once in awhile). The authors of How to Be Organized in Spite of Yourself have done just that, and help us identify ourselves within the Ten Operational Styles: Hopper, Perfectionist Plus, Allergic to Detail, Fence Sitter, Cliff Hanger, Everything Out, Nothing Out, Right Angler, Pack Rat, or Total Slob. And we don't even have to fit perfectly into any one, so we can adapt our organizing system according to several different styles."
The Art of Speed Reading People: How to Size People Up and Speak Their Language 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book ably explains the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. With a little practice, you can quickly identify your own personality type and that of anyone you meet. If you are already familiar with the Myers-Briggs model, much of this book will be old news. If you aren't familiar with it, and if you want to learn how to "SpeedRead" people according to this theory, this book will benefit you. The authors go into great detail about the four temperaments and the sixteen personality types within them. We from getAbstract recommend this as a book for purposeful study. However, even if you only read it once, you will learn something about yourself or the people around you.
What Type Am I?: Discover Who You Really Are 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback:"This is the best MBTI [Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator] resource book I've found to date...The first part of this compact, well-written book introduces the MBTI in very easily understood language. Somewhat predictabily there is a self-test/check list to determine one's preferences in personality type. The next section discusses each type in depth and is illustrated with drawings, which add greatly to the book's appeal and readability. Illustrations of what each type does that irritates the other are particularly helpful. Other issues are addressed and contrasted as well. This is a rich resource book that you will be glad to have and use!"
Type Talk at Work: How 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is just one of the books that shows you how to use personality/psychological type at work and is worth reading. It covers nearly all issues we face in the modern workplace like communicating with co-workers, handling stress in the workplace, ethics, time management etc. all from a Type perspective. Kroger and Thuesen do a good job at explaining how Extroverts handle things differently from Introverts, Sesates from iNtuitives, Feelers from Thinkers, & Judgers from Perceivers. Apart from this, in between it gives various tips on how people with different preferences can better understand and work with each other."
Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This work examines the contribution of psychological theory to our understanding of human behaviour in the workplace. It covers both personnel issues such as selection and training and organizational issues such as decision making. It contains up-to-date material with coverage of organizational culture and design. There is also material on change and development and the issue of power at individual and, group and organizational levels. Real-life examples are used to support the theory, to show how the concepts dealth with actually apply to work settings."
People Styles at Work: Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "One the best book and method on the subject I have read so far, and I have read quite a few. There are 4 main Communication Styles, and the best thing is that only observable behaviors are used to categorize people in one style or another. No messing around with people's phsyche, and finally a very simple method to effectively relate to other people in the workplace."
Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Over the last decade or so research into bullying, emotional abuse and harassment at work, as distinct from harassment based on sex or race and primarily of a non-physical nature, has emerged as a new field of study. Two main academic streams have emerged: a European tradition applying the concept of 'mobbing' or 'bullying' and the American tradition, primarily identified through concepts such as emotional abuse and mistreatment. One focuses on the perpetrator, the other on the victim. In addition research in this field has also started in Australia and South Africa. All are brought together in this work, in a synthesis of research and analysis of practice in the field. In addition, this book aims to document the existence and consequences of the problem of bullying, to explore its causes and to investigate the effectiveness of approaches aimed at mitigating and managing the problem, as well as to offer suggestions for further progress in this important new field."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: ""If you want your organization to be the best that it can be in terms of human and business effectiveness, this is the book to read. But don't just read it; share it with your most thoughtful and respected colleagues! Spread the ideas and evidence to help grow the emotional competencies in your organizational network."
Bullying in the Workplace: Recent Trends in Research and Practice 
Review/Reader Feedback: "Research on workplace bullying started more than a decade ago but has increased during the last few years. This special issue on workplace bullying documents the most recent developments in research and practice in various European countries and includes topics such as the role of personality in becoming a victim, bullying and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), conflict escalation and coping with bullying, and the impact of organizational status on bullying behavior."
Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: ""The Reinas have shown us that trust is more than just a word, but the nexus that holds corporations together. [This] glorious homily demands the attention of all human resource professionals and executives at every level within the organization."
Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge and Combat Workplace Bullies 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I read 'Bully in Sight' from cover to cover twice. It provided me with invaluable and indispensable help in coping with stalkers and bullies. I have dedicated the last 5 years to the study of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Most narcissists are bullies. Few have captured the essence of bullying and stalking as Tim [field the Author] has. His work has given hope to many - the trapped and desperate victims of bullying, harassment and stalking."
You Don't Have to Take It!: A Woman's Guide to Confronting Emotional Abuse at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Is it you? Are you really just too sensitive to harsh words on the job? Or is it abuse? The authors share personal experiences and walk you through defining the problem, developing a remedy and placing this type of abuse into the larger social context. The workbook format allows you to objectively view your situation and to take appropriate action. Stop feeling powerless; stop feeling as if there must be something wrong with you."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I've had to deal with several jerks, overbearing bosses, narcissistic-types, etc. in the past 20 years or so, and I have to say I wish I had this book before I met these creeps. I still have to deal with some ..., but they aren't much trouble any more. Jay gives CLEAR instructions on how to deal with these kinds of people, written in easy-to-understand language."
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is an excellent tool for anyone manipulated by a covert aggressive personality... I never knew there was a model for this personality type! This is an excellent book for all to read, should you ever come across a covert manipulative personality that stops at nothing to get what they want, yet somehow makes it look like it's not them. They're not hurting, stressed out or insecure, they're just going to get things the way they want!"
Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Poweres to Succeed 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I've read around 20 books on personal achievement, self improvement, and psychology this year and out of all those books, this book is my favorite. It has everything. After reading this book, not only will you have a greater knowledge of human behavior but you will also apply these incredible concepts into your living. One of my favorite chapters was the goal setting. Tracy not only shows you how to set goals but most importantly, especially to people who feel lost in this world, he guides you to discover what is your ultimate passion in life."
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is worth its weight in gold. No hocus-pocus quick fixes here - just common sense in short chapters on a myriad of methods human beings use to screw life up for themselves - or should I say "ourselves"? I saw myself on many pages, to one degree or another, and the "Usable Insights" were actually useful!! Very few authors go as far at stripping away the delusions people hide behind as Dr. Goulston. For anyone who REALLY wants to get to the nitty-gritty about how self-sabotage is hurting him/her, this book is a true gift!"
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Absolutely the most worthwhile book- period- I have ever read. I consider Allen's techniques and insights invaluable, and can honestly say my life is changed for the better by having learned them. I recommend this book to anybody who will listen, and am reading it through for the third time myself. Praise enough? Do yourself a favor and get this book."
Super Self: Doubling Your Personal Effectiveness 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Most people are concerned with efficiency, staying busy, this book is about effectiveness--getting things done. Before reading SuperSelf, I was one of those people who always lamented; "If only I had more time" Now I have the time. Givens provides actual strategies to get twice as much done in half the time and actually have even more time for family, recreation or whatever you want to do. Excellent book and a must read for anyone who wants to achieve more."
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Dr Covey has put together one of the best works ever. The key word in the title is "habits", no thinking about, setting goals to do something, swishing or anchoring yourself, but actually developing habits and actually doing it. I've read this book several times and I get something new out of it every time."
The Empowered Imperative: Assertively Managing Yourself for Optimum Success 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Smeed's well organized book extremely readable…and the reader will gain self-confidence and feel a motivating permission to excel."
Managing Yourself: Management by Detached Involvement 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I bought this book 5 years ago and since then I bought and read plenty of similar. But this one really presents, in a plain and practical language, all the subjects (and problems) I meet in my daily work!"
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The number-one reason for a firing, report a number of studies, is not incompetence. Rather, it's a murky area that, for lack of a better name, is called "personality differences." Behavioral and management consultant Bramson addresses the issue of correcting behavior before a pink slip arrives. First he outlines the commitment to change and then the steps needed for change, which range from figuring out goals to repairing one's image."
How to Negotiate a Bigger Raise (Barron's Business Success Series) 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Know your value to your company, discover how to strengthen and broaden that value, then learn how to communicate this message to your boss. The author analyzes this formula and shows how it can pay dividends when seeking a raise."
Haldane's Best Salary Tips for Professionals 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Based on the unique career management principles of Bernard Haldane Associates, this book may well become your most trusted resource for talking money to power. Whether you're discussing money with an employer or your boss, you'll find Haldane's time-honored salary negotiation principles can make a big difference in the size and shape of your compensation package. Whatever you do, make sure you review this book before responding to a request for salary information, going to a job interview, discussing compensation, or accepting a job offer."
Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This was a fast and profitable read for me. The techniques are simple and forward. No magic or miracles promised, just some old-fashioned horse-sense for understanding and navigating the salary-negotiating game and how and why to develop your own negotiating strategies beforehand. The mind-opening section for me was the "budget-fudgit-judgit" stages described in Chapter Three "Salary-Making Rule 1: When to Discuss Money". This book also contains good strategies to employ at salary-review time."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Featured in the National Business Employment Weekly of The Wall Street Journal, here's the book that outlines the major issues involved in determining salaries: secrecy, salary history, requirements, ranges, and negotiating tactics. Outlines common mistakes and how to value positions, and more."
Get Paid What You're Worth : The Expert Negotiators' Guide to Salary and Compensation 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a must-read for anyone looking for a job or seeking to make the money they deserve in the job they already have. Northcraft and Pinkley are smart, down-to-earth negotiators who show you how you can do your best to negotiate the best salary you can get. Those out of work will gain strength and self-pride from this book, despite their situation -- perhaps the most important help the book offers, in the end!"
"An authoritative guide to how British employers, and managers unions and employees changed their organization and behavior from the time of the first Thatcher administration to the early years of the Blair government."
Britain at Work: 1998 Workplace Relations Survey 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Britain at Work presents a detailed analysis of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, the largest survey of its kind ever conducted. Across Britain, managers and worker representatives in over 3,000 workplaces completed work-life questionnaires."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Scott Adams has nailed corporate America. If you have spent any time at all working for a big corporation, you will find this book to be very funny. The comic strips are always pretty humorous, but what I found also to be very funny was the text in this book, specifically describing the various corporate functions such as engineering, marketing, sales, and of course general management... The way he describes typical business situations, like the ongoing balancing act between engineering products and marketing them, is eerily accurate, and very funny."
The Mafia Manager : A Guide to the Corporate Machiavelli 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If you're looking for some basic guidelines on how to behave at work to move ahead,or if you believe your coworkers are actually your "friends" then get this book right away. The strength of this book is how it describes in lay man terms what you need to do to survive and thrive, and despite the mention of the word mafia in the title I didn't find the tactics in this book evil.
Toxic Work: How to Overcome Stress, Overload, and Burnout and Revitalize Your Career 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Toxic Work is a wonderful resource. I have used the book as a required text for both my graduate level Managment Training and Development and Human Resource Management courses. My students, without exception, rave about the content. Dr. Reinhold's humor and insight have provided me and over 100 of my students with a great set of career problem solving tools and a teriffic bibliography."
Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, 2002 Revised Edition 
Excerpt: "Every year, millions of Americans become victims of emotional abuse inflicted at work. They are damaged to such an extent that they can no longer accomplish their tasks. Co-workers, colleagues, superiors and subordinates attack their dignity, integrity and competence, repeatedly, over a number of weeks, months, or years. At the end, they resign--voluntarily or involuntarily--are terminated, or forced into early retirement. This is mobbing--workplace expulsion through emotional abuse. Ironically and sadly, the victims are portrayed as the ones at fault, as the ones who brought about their own downfalls."
Naked Employee, The: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Reading Lane's book is enough to make any employee paranoid. The attorney and author of Obscene Profits relentlessly lays out the many and varied ways employers legally spy on employees. Web surfing? Workers are being watched. E-mail? That, too. From video cameras to ID cards to background checks, employees' lives are basically open books to whoever is paying their salary. Lane's style is more clinical than impassioned, laying out the hard facts instead of editorializing. But readers may wish he would rant a bit more about all this 1984-style surveillance. His subjects range from computer forensics (whatever you delete isn't really deleted) to the routine monitoring of communications ("roughly one-half of all employers in this country periodically review their employees' e-mails")."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book will show an individual Internet user all they need to know to help maintain personal privacy. Topics include securing a PC and Internet connection, knowing the risks of releasing personal information, cutting back on spam and other e-mail nuisances, and dealing with personal privacy away from the computer."
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I've always been worried about my privacy when I go online --- but after reading this book, I don't worry any more. It taught me how to protect my privacy, stop cookies and snoopers, and make sure that no one can track what I do. It even taught me how to keep my home network safe."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A practical guide to legal and ethical issues affecting privacy in the workplace. The author uses case law to examine the gamut of workplace issues. Polygraph, drug testing, reference checks, E-mail intercept, surveillance, harassment, and interviews."
The Privacy Rights Handbook: How to Take Control of Your Personal Information 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book tells you everything you need to know about the legalities of your private life. It is especially useful in understanding what you boss can know and can't know about your privacy. You would be surprised to know what future employers can learn about you. Get it, learn your rights."
Complete Guide To E-Security : Using The Internet And E-Mail Without Losing Your Privacy 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The Complete Guide To E-Security covers all aspects of using the Internet and email while protecting personal privacy. Chesbro reveals how anyone's email can be accessed and read a dozen times between the time it is sent and when it is received, that through such techniques as cookies and bugs, the unscrupulous can track which websites you visit, your IP address, email address, geographic location, even the type of computer you use. Chesbro then goes on to explain everything needed to insure both safety and anonymity while surfing the Internet, how to set up encrypted email, crate uncrackable passwords, "off the shelf" unbreakable encryption programs, and sending email through remailer services to disguise the source. The Complete Guide To E-Security is essential reading for anyone seeking to protect and ensure his or her privacy on the web or in electronic communications. "
What Next? The Complete Guide to Taking Control of Your Working Life 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "When you start reading the introduction, you will be amazed by the depth to which this book will take you. This is not a dry how-to-find-a-job book, this is about finding a soul-satisfying vocation. It is about finding work that not only provides a sense of purpose, but allows us to express our values, talents and strengths. The two main ideas of "What Next?" include developing an independent attitude of being who you are by expressing your authentic self and acknowledging that a good job is a right, not a privilege.
What Color Is Your Parachute 2004?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers 
"'WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? HOT AGAIN, 30 YEARS AFTER DEBUT.' So ran the headline this past October in the Seattle Times. Actually, it has been 'hot'—the best-selling job-hunting book in the world—year after year, for more than three decades now, so much so that it is referred to as 'the job-hunters’ bible.' Each year it is updated, and sometimes vastly rewritten, by the author, giving first-time and veteran readers alike something new to discover. For those who have not read an updated version in recent years, this is a reminder of why, in the words of Fortune magazine, 'PARACHUTE remains the gold standard of career guides.'"
Career Intelligence : The 12 New Rules for Work and Life Success 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is in a class of its own way above career guidance books that offer tips on how to write resumes or suggest "hot" jobs that you should choose. Dr Moses writes intelligently about the stresses of managing your career in a world where all the rules have changed. There are useful sections on many aspects of today's workplace...Whatever stage you are at in your career I think you will find something useful in this book. Overrall a wise, illuminating book that I would recommend not just to anyone looking for direction in their career but also managers in organizations who whish to understand what "career" has come to mean in today's workplace and help their employees recognize and acheive their career goals."
Step Forward: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: What You Need to Know! 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A specialist in the area of sexual harassment offers an easy-to-follow guide to the prevention and treatment of sexual harassment in the workplace, answering questions about what constitutes harassment and specific actions a company should take."
Workplace Bullying: What do we know, who is to blame and what can we do? 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Workplace bullying is an area that has attracted significant press attention throughout the last decade. This is an issue endemic in working life in Britain. This book is derived form the largest survey ever carried out on workplace bullying. This study covered 5,500 people, but the book goes beyond it to explore all the aspects associated with what is becoming a major issue in organizations."
Internal Affairs: The Abuse of Power, Sexual Harassment, and Hyprocrisy in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "[The Author's] new book is a comprehensive survey of attitudes, practices, and laws on this issue. She contrasts public perceptions of harassment with legal definitions, and she identifies who harasses and suggests reasons why they do. Neville tracks an actual case of harassment and shows the "web of consequences" that befalls companies in which harassment occurs... Appendixes summarize major cases, include applicable legal statutes, offer a sample sexual harassment policy, and advise how and where to file a claim of harassment.
Bullyproof Yourself at Work!: Personal Strategies to Recognize and Stop the Hurt from Harassment 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book accomplishes what many of us have tried to do for most of our working lives: articulate why work so often causes suffering and reduces productivity. Usually, we know someone is bothering us at work, but we have troublre articulating exactly what it is. This is especially so when the problem is the boss, and when we seem to feel that the boss has the right to bully us. In this book, bullies will recognize themselves and will learn for the first time what behaviors they should quit imposing on others. Targets and victims of bullies will find out what to do to protect themselves."
Job Discrimination II: How to Fight, How to Win 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This quick-and-easy read provided me with the ammunition I needed to combat and overcome injustice in my workplace. This book helped me to not only learn my rights, but also to gather my courage during a difficult and trying time. Anyone who suffers from discrimination, or thinks they are suffering from discrimination, should read this book."
Your Rights in the Workplace, Sixth Edition 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The most complete guide to workplace rights, this book is the handbook employees can look to every time they have a question or complaint about hiring, wages and hours, family and medical leave, unemployment and disability insurance, workers' compensation, job health and safety, discrimination, and much more. Includes the latest on HIV/AIDS, privacy rights, and the ADA."
The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If I had read this book MUCH sooner (such as when the bullying FIRST started), it would have helped me emotionally. I would have realized MUCH sooner what was happening, and known that I wasn't crazy. I could have fought back sooner, and would have known how, and which strategies to use. I also would have kept detailed records of each bullying incident, and I would have gotten witnesses' statements. In short, if you are even questioning yourself about whether bullying is happening to you, or not, BUY THIS BOOK."
Adult Bullying: Perpetrators and Victims 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Peter Randall has written a book that anyone who has been victimized by bullies or harassers will relate to imediately. He put into words what my rage inside of me feels like I just can't explain it. I've been a victim of corporate bullying until I finally had a nervous breakdown. When I found this book it was like Peter Randall had been following me around for 2 years and then put all these horrible stories together. Plain and simple he hit the nail on the head with this one. There's alot to learn and take from this book."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I've seen a lot of books and training programs that purport to teach people to be more effective communicators. Most teach tried-and-true, but old-and-generic, understandings and skills that help people become somewhat more effective. They do not, however, teach people to be really effective in those few important communication challenges that really matter. That is the contribution of Crucial Conversations. In my consulting practice, I've noticed repeatedly that many managers and executives don't take on the tough issues or don't handle them well or, even worse, handle them in a way that creates positive harm in their relationship with others. When I talk to them about their situations, I find that they know they can be better communicators on tough issues; they just don't know how! That's where Crucial Conversations adds real value."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Most of us were taught to be nice and want to believe that being nice will "work," but this author discourages practicing the golden rule to the point of becoming the "golden fool." The author explains the tactics we normally use with other people and explains why these tactics don't work with bullies and in fact may encourage the bully to intensify his or her efforts. For instance, while active listening and empathy may help in many cases, giving a bully a sympathetic ear will perpetuate the abuse. This will be useful to you if you have received well-meaning but misguided advice to be nice to or in some way accommodate the bully. The first 65 or so pages flesh out the problem, help you understand why it is appropriate to defend yourself, etc. Most of the remaining 250 or so pages help you learn what to say."
How to Work With Just About Anyone: A 3-Step Solution for Getting Difficult People to Change 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Lucy Gill presents a new approach to dealing with problem people at work that is simple, fresh and extremely useful. The bottom line? Stop using the same old methods that don't work for you. If you want to see new results, you've got to employ some of the new tricks put forth here. This book will help you, whether you are stumped on dealing with a boss or employee. If you have ever felt frustrated by a bully, nerd, lightweight, arrogant or some other problem-causing co-worker, then here is your book."
Dealing With People You Can't Stand 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If we can't control our own behavior for our own good, how can we control someone else's especially when that person's obnoxious ways satisfies some perverse need? Some books on interpersonal conflict recommend that the reader resort to planning biting comebacks or simply ignoring the offending party. Rick and Rick offer more positive and healthier solutions (such as being more empathetic without being a punching bag) that if implemented will help the reader stay sane when under attack and eventually learn to stay above the fray."
Getting Fired: What to Do If You Are Fired, Downsized, Laid Off Terminated or Forced to Resign 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Nobody wants to need Stephen Mitchell Sack's new book, but everyone should. Anyone can be fired, anytime. Sack was sacked, unfairly, from his first job out of law school. It must have ticked him off, because he's become the adviser of the pink-slipped population. His book explains when to call a lawyer if you're fired and gives an overview of U.S. laws protecting employees from discrimination and unfair dismissal. Despite the necessary legal lingo, the author keeps it readable. He warns you to prepare for dismissal before it ever happens and shows that simple record keeping can boost your severance package. From sample letters to a list of relevant government agencies, this is one handy manual for the let-go, downsized, or dismissed."
Fired, Down-Sized, or Laid-Off: What Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know About How to Fight Back 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If you buy one book to help you if you're fired, I recommend this one without hesitation. I found the advice and recommendations invaluable. In a coherent, sensible approach, Mr. Sklover's experience shows through. At times he seemed to read my mind as he methodically covered my concerns as well as introduced topics that had not occurred to me. He translated the legal jargon into plain English, rendering the advice both understandable and useful. The list of more than 100 negotiating points is alone worth the price of the book. I think "this is the one" on this topic."
No More Blue Mondays: Four Keys to Finding Fulfillment at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I've been a career consultant since 1979, and this book is fresh! Most of the career books I've seen are filled with theory and instructions, but show little proof that it works. Here, finally, is a book that is not only right on the money, but it's believable. What I mean is that Robin's book is full of real-life examples; person after person, example after example, story after story. You get it: her "four keys" are not dreamt up in some ivory tower -- they are practical, applicable, powerful, field-tested tools to accomplish a successful career transition. They really work."
Love the Work You're With: Find the Job You Always Wanted Without Leaving the One You Have 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Your job can be a prison or a palace. For most of us, work probably falls somewhere in between, but we usually don't acknowledge - or even realize - how much control we have in the matter. If you've ever wondered what you can do to improve the satisfaction and pleasure you get from work - without making a wrenching career change - this book is a wonderful place to start. I read a lot of self-help books (and occasionally even write them). This one is chock full of practical wisdom."
Your Rights at the Work Place: The Things Your Boss Won't Tell You 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The book, "Your Rights at the Workplace - The Things Your Boss Won't Tell You", shows how to identify on-the-job discrimination or harassment and offers legal suggestions for dealing with it. Author and practicing civil rights attorney Leo James Terrell examines workplace situations that include on African American engineer whose complaints of verbal harassment by coworkers and supervisors are ignored by management; and a highly qualified registered nurse who's passed over for a promotion in favor of a colleague involved with the boss. Through case studies like these, Terrell illustrates the "snares, traps and pitfalls your employers can use to oppress and otherwise shatter your life at work."
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Susan Forward presents the anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation, and gives readers an arsenal of tools to fight back. In her clear, no-nonsense style, Forward provides powerful, practical strategies for blackmail targets, including checklists, practice scenarios and concrete communications techniques that will strengthen relationships and break the blackmail cycle for good."
Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book examines personality disorders in the context of the workplace. It explains why that jerk in accounting is a jerk. It also tells you what to do when confronting these type of people. It's a interesting, well written book, for anyone with problems with people at work or anyone interested in personality disorders."
How to Survive and Get Ahead When Your Boss is A Tyrant, Control Freak, or Just Plain Nuts! 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Whether master manipulator or serious psycho, a bad boss can make life miserable for everyone. Most workers simply can't walk away from a sticky supervisory situation, however; they need to learn instead how to cope as well as thrive. Career expert and syndicated columnist Bob Weinstein proposes ways to do just that. The result is an upbeat handbook filled with solid suggestions for getting along with any boss from hell."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Adams, creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, continues the satirical look at office life that he began with The Dilbert Principle (1996). Being a weasel encompasses everything that we hate about our coworkers as well as all the sneaky, time-wasting activities that we ourselves engage in just to avoid doing actual work. Here's his take on getting ahead by sucking up to the boss: "The great thing about being a sycophant is there's no deception going on. You know you're a weasel, your boss knows you're a weasel, and your coworkers know you're a weasel. Yet the method still works like a charm." The book is filled with lots of to-the-point Dilbert strips with appearances from all the regular characters, and (supposed) actual e-mails from readers about the absurd things that go on in the workplace. This book is best left on your desk to read in snippets for comic relief from the inane culture of office life."
Did You Say Something, Susan?: How Any Woman Can Gain Confidence With Assertive Communication 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This really is a wonderful book. If I follow even half of the author's suggestions, I'll never need to read another self improvement book again. It has excellent advice on ways to communicate more assertively and the types of speech habits to avoid which diminish your credibilty with listeners.It's written clearly and in a very entertaining way. The examples are wonderful."
Asserting Yourself: A Practical Guide for Positive Change 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Over 140,000 readers have raised their self-esteem with Asserting Yourself. New examples of the Bowers' celebrated DESC scripts, showing readers how to state their needs without crumpling before negative replies, make this popular assertiveness handbook more useful than ever. Other additions include assessment worksheets and improved stress-reducing skills."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Dr. Smith begins by describing "Your 10 Assertive Rights," a reminder that we all have a right do such human things as say "I don't know" and change our minds. He then introduces various assertiveness strategies one by one, starting with the very basic skill of persistence (AKA the "broken record" technique). For each strategy, Dr. Smith presents a short dialogue vignette to help you better understand how to apply that technique to real life. Once he has thoroughly taught all of the individual techniques, Dr. Smith puts them all together and addresses assertiveness in different types of situations--ie, with your family members versus with your boss."
The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is exactly what the title says it is - a workbook for relaxation and stress reduction - and its user-friendly style enables the reader to dip into any chapter at will and derive something useful and informative from it. The book's orientation is very much a holistic approach and the authors' emphasis on mental coping methods dovetails nicely with the chapters on reducing physical stress symptoms. I found the progressive relaxation guidance (including instructions for creating your own tape) particulary well done and helpful."
How to Think Like a Boss: And Get Ahead at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book contains concepts that I had to learn 'the hard way', over many years. It explains office politics, how to understand what your boss wants/ needs from you, why hard work doesn't always get you ahead, and more! I have bought this book for 25 of my employees... I can't say enough about how readable, applicable and useful this book is! It is a refreshing change from most management books which spout terms like empowerment, and fill themselves with charts and grids."
Don't Sabotage Your Success! Make Office Politics Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "At the time when I was stressed out by my boss shutting me down, this book came as a huge help. I needed help real-time. I read the book in 2 days. I started seeing results immediately. Not only that - I went and talked to my old boss and found exactly the reason for my past failure. Further more, I talked to some friends and it was an eye opener for them as well! Now I am ordering a couple of extra copies to send to friends!"
Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If your notions of how to get along with your boss stopped at the admiring-the-family-photos-on-the-credenza stage, here's how to move it along. Michael Dobson and Deborah Singer Dobson advance kissing-up to a new, practical level, as they straightforwardly explain their boss-wrangling concepts. You can read the brief chapters in bite-size chunks and each one ends with a worksheet. While these concepts about understanding your boss and playing to the boss's priorities are not particularly innovative, they are useful and accessible... Reading this book won't change your boss's personality - but it might blunt his pitchfork. We ... recommend it to staffers who want to get ahead by getting along with the boss, the gatekeeper to the top."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "What distinguishes this book from the competition is the authors' commitment to an ethical, principled approach to the political game, which I found to be refreshing and positive. So often, the choice is presented as "stop worrying about being nice and get out there and win!" Instead, the Dobsons show why having principles, being honest, and treating others with dignity and respect can be a source of political strength and effective results, and why the archetypical Machiavellian office politician often comes to a bad end."
It's a Job, Not a Jail: How to Break Your Shackles When You Can't Afford to Quit 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "More and more, in cubicles across the nation, loyalty and hard work seem to be a waste of time, and many people stay at jobs they hate only because they see no other option. Now, from the authors of "How to Work for a Jerk", comes a collection of timely and time-proven techniques for surviving in an office from hell without losing your cool, your sanity, or your job."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "In a market flooded with advice on interpersonal relationships and the conflicts inherent in relationships, Crowe's book is refreshing in its common-sense approach...In a market flooded with advice on interpersonal relationships and the conflicts inherent in relationships, Crowe's book is refreshing in its common-sense approach."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Designed as an at-a-glance reference tool, this 10-part guide describes 10 kinds of culprits, from tyrants, bullies, and sadists to the pushy and presumptuous to connivers and camouflagers. Each type is first defined, allowing for a peek inside the heads of both victim and victimizer and offering a helpful strategy for facilitating tactful dialogues that serves as excellent advice for diffusing workplace tensions and hostilities. You may recognize these types as thorns in your side or--worse--real threats to your sense of well-being and work performance. This reference book packs a wallop, not only restoring your self-esteem but allowing you to create better relationships with the people at work who make your life miserable."
Neanderthals at Work: How People and Politics Can Drive You Crazy...and What You Can Do About Them 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I bought my first copy thinking that all those people causing me stress at work were "Neanderthals" As I read, I learned that all work centers have- and need each of three basic types, and to the other types in the office, I am their "Neanderthal" Very empowering, give a copy to you you boss, and to your favorite and least favorite co-worker. I'm replacing my own copy, as it never gets returned when borrowed, only passed off to others. Good Reading, fast, to the point
Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The elephant referred to in this title of this witty and joyfully manipulative little book is your boss, the powerful but lumbering and self-involved authority figure that Fortune columnist Stanley Bing believes is comfortably ensconced in your company's corner office. Bing begins his manual on the care and feeding of these "business elephants" with the admonition that people don't get to choose their bosses; like the weather or gravity, bosses exist as laws of nature that exceed the control of the mere mortal mosquitoes that hover about them. "Throwing the Elephant" is likely to become the kind of book that people start reading because it makes them laugh and end up giving to their friends because there's so much to learn from it."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Bosses and their employees regularly joust as if engaged in a real-life chess match, but supervisors usually hold the edge because they are generally more familiar with the psychological arts of manipulation and intimidation. Journalist Russell Wild's Games Bosses Play is an attempt to level the game board by providing workers with the ammunition to successfully fight back. Lighthearted in approach but deadly serious in intent, it parlays interviews with more than 100 experts--from employees to executives to third-party observers--into a revelation of the top 36 exploitative techniques utilized by bosses worldwide and the measures that can be used to counter them."
How to Manage Your Boss: Developing the Perfect Working Relationship 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "We've all got one; even the best ones aren't always easy to get on with; the worst ones can make life hell. Bosses. It's time to manage them back.How to Manage your Boss is the user's guide to getting the best from your manager. Understand what matters to them and how they like to function, and you can start to build a relationship that is as beneficial as it is rewarding. Developing a good relationship with your boss is vital for a low-stress, high-reward working life and you are in control. This is the book to help you get more from your most significant working relationship - from understanding your manager's manager (or boss?)(and what pressure is being exerted from above) to tackling subjects in the most appropriate way for your manager's personality, and dealing with problem manager characteristics."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book is quick and funny, and is filled with self-tests and worksheets. There are great examples of how to work with difficult people (even if it's your boss) - it's about getting along, getting ahead, or getting out when necessary. Take control of your own career while staying true to yourself, have some fun, and get ahead!"
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Roy Lubit's new book is an exciting breakthrough for anyone who has ever had a boss! It's hard to remember that bosses are only people. This book helps you understand what makes them tick, their different styles, how you can manage them effectively from below, and how to get everyone working on the same team. Lubit's secret ingredient is his incisive knowledge of how people and organizations work. A must read!"
Job Rights & Survival Strategies: A Handbook for Terminated Employees 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "Author Tobias guides the reader through that awful experience of losing a job. Employees sometimes need to know what there rights are, and this book helps. Useful for me as I negotiated severance and letters of recommendation...something that my employer really didn't want to do."
How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This manual is designed for anyone who lives with, works with, or deals with emotionally explosive people. The personalities described as "Walking Time Bombs" react to stress with emotional explosions into anger, sadness or fear. Albert J. Bernstein examines how to cope with these people, offering strategies for dealing with all types of emotional outbursts and over-reactions. He distinguishes between "hot anger", which involves anger that explodes into any form of violence, including everything from verbal outbursts to bodily harm, and "cold anger", which involves explosions into withdrawal, rejection and disapproval. The volume also discusses how to predict violence, and where and when to get help."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Author Gary Topchik writes that there are 14 types of negative workers, and offers a 21 day program to overcome negativity in the workplace. He further indicates that your work environment may be infected with a "negativity virus" when people fear change ( down-sizing, layoffs, mergers) or work in isolation, or are constantly criticized, or when few growth opportunities exist. Add to this bristling mix, "rumormongers" who go beyond fun gossip to spreading damaging rumors in order to feel better about themselves and the "not-my- jobbers", and you have a work force of "negaholics". The book is well-written and easy to follow. The author guides the reader through these office "land mines" in a simple candid forth-right manner. Take this book to your CEO or just read it so you can manuver through the chaos."
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "If you only read one book about personal psychology or self help, this is the one to choose. Almost any time I have a difficult problem, I can consult this book and realize where I am not bringing enough awareness or responsibility to my life. The most important lesson Branden teaches in this book is that no one is coming to save you, but in the process, he gives you the tools to save yourself."
Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing With Difficult People 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "In a clear, conversational tone, Rosen covers seemingly every possible reason, response, interpretation and lesson that can be attached to unpleasant relationships. They can serve as mirrors, wake-up calls or chances to stand up for ourselves or to become more forgiving. They can help us develop 'latent qualities,' rectify the past or prepare for the future. With quotes, summaries and exercises throughout this thoughtful book, Rosen thoroughly explores new ways to view personal conflicts and to use them for healing."
Reviewer/Reader: "She discusses various types of behavior: hostile-aggressive, procrastinating, negative-complaining, and arrogant. An "Action Outline" is provided to solve problems effectively, and a separate chapter treats communication differences between men and women employees. The approach used throughout is how to get along, not get even. Filled with examples of various types of personalities in numerous situations, this book proves valuable to both the employee and the manager."
Jerks at Work: How to Deal With People Problems and Problem People 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "Finally, a book that honestly identifies and analyzes that prolific workplace species - the jerk. Organized by situation and topic, Jerks at Work presents the answers to at least 200 jerk-related questions from real-life readers that were originally published in author Ken Lloyd's syndicated On the Job column. The book is psychologically sound, excruciatingly direct, extremely funny and, above all, actually helpful. Lloyd does a splendid job of covering all the bases and every kind of jerk, from the boardroom to the mailroom."
Surviving in the Jungle of Office Politics 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is the first book spoken from an employees point of view. I was tired of hearing it from a PHD, who may understand human personality, but has never worked in an office for others, and Jill's book tells it like it is. From winning an argument, to taking a stand for what you believe in, Jill's book really drives it home. I really enjoyed it and have recommended it to many of my friends trying to make it in this world with some dignity."
Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I have just retired after 32 years in a major Fortune 10 company and I have to commend Joel DeLuca on the excellence of his book. I think the tools he provides are of outstanding practical value and highly useable on a day to day basis. But I think his emphasis on the ethical nature of savvy work is critical. His description of Machs or Machiavellis who seek power only for its own sake to advance themselves, is extremely realistic, convincing and a challenge to principle people to take back organization politics from the pecking order obsessives and make organizations own awowed purpose a central guiding light."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "I bought this book after finding out that working hard, and STAYING OUT of office politics was getting me NOWHERE, AND HURTING MY CAREER. Especially since I work in an organization where it seems that office politics is all that many employees are thinking about! The book discusses the ineveitability of office politics, and gives you an extensive test to find out how "political" you are yourself...Once you have examined your own potential at office politics, the book tells you every possible strategy to get on your boss's good side."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This is a perfect book for someone to keep as a desk reference for the personality types. I found the information very valuable even though I own most other books on this subject. It is an outstanding reference for the types in an organizational setting."
Work It Out: Clues for Solving People Problems at Work 
Reviwer/Reader Feedback: "we are working our way through the book chapter-by-chapter; one chapter each week. 30 to 45 minutes of each Monday morning Staff meeting are devoted to discussion of the issues in the "current" chapter; what each person's "type" value is, and how those values contribute and frustrate the values of others. We are six weeks into this project. Conflicts issues between staff that used to cause friction and frustration are simply melting away as the chapters drop away. Staff openly discuss disagreements as conflicts in Type; and allow each other to have different views."
Lifeboat Strategies: How to Keep Your Career Above Water During Tough Times - Or Any Time 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This unique survival guide shows readers how to maintain their work performance and keep jobs intact during times of downsizing, restructuring, and belt-tightening. With 10 concrete strategies, readers learn how to obtain resources and stretch staff during meager times; perform well when faced with overwhelming demands; maintain their morale during times of high stress; determine how and when to "jump ship" if necessary; and make a painless transition into a new job."
Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Bing describes the various kinds of crazy bosses: the boss with the five brains, the bully, the paranoid boss, the narcissist, the "bureaucrazy," and the disaster hunter... Bing ends each chapter with concrete strategies to cope with each type of crazy boss."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Bramson ... focuses on recognizing, understanding, and dealing with different types of difficult bosses. In short vignettes, he describes an array of management behaviors: bosses who are artful dodgers, bosses who demean, bosses who are always right, and bosses who cling to power. For each boss behavior pattern, Bramson provides strategies for subordinates to handle the situation from a position of analysis and preparation. Each vignette has accompanying step-by-step techniques to use."
Difficult People: How Deal With Impossible Clients, Bosses and Employees 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Author Roberta Cava outlines the useful techniques that will help anyone, especially front-line staff, "keep cool under fire" in a wide variety of situations including: angry customers; annoying subordinates, co-workers and bosses; sarcasm and The Silent Treatment; and abusive language and behavior. Cava's thorough coverage of communication skills--including paraphrasing, feedback, interpreting body language and understanding different personality types--makes "Difficult People" a must for anyone in the business world."
What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Bing gleefully offers hard-boiled Machiavellian advice about whom to fire in a downsizing (consultants first, secretaries last), how to make employees love you ("Give them perks.... When they're spending your money, you own them"), and why it's important that you also kick ass (one of the ways: "cutting them off curtly when they speak") and take names (so people know you'll not only hurt them, you'll also go after their friends). The overriding lesson of this book is always to love yourself, never apologize for anything you do, and when all else fails, recognize that the truth is flexible, and so can be bent any way you want. What makes all this amorality funny is that Bing plays it straight, putting his ruthless advice into an easily digestible how-to format."
The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Suzette Haden Elgin, nationally recognized linguistics expert and author, applies her acclaimed techniques for combating verbal violence to common on-the-job situations. Forceful yet non-threatening, her proven strategies will empower workers of every level to recognize verbal abuse, gently defuse it, and replace it with courteous and effective communication."
Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding With Your Boss 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Starting from very basic skills of setting goals (personal and company), and effective communication it moves into more advanced skills such as reading your boss, your boss's work style, and "the Care and Feeding of a Boss." I particularly liked these more advanced chapters giving tools to review and recognize your boss's working method, evaluate and categorize behaviors he uses, and you use in response, and approaches to use that will mesh the two working styles into a team. Learning what bosses want, (and what they don't want) was also very helpful and gave me several items to implement in my own job: communicating about completed assignments, praising my boss to encourage specific behaviors, and how to improve in needed areas. I am grateful that I do not need the chapter covering dreadful bosses, but it was very enlightening and a very good review of choices that can be made in those circumstances."
Power Freaks: Dealing With Them in the Workplace or Anyplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "So many offices have a boss who seems to find pleasure in humiliating workers or a manipulating employee who sabotages coworkers behind their backs. These kinds of people come in many disguises. This book is an analysis of why people act this way, how to recognize them and how to develop a strategy for getting along with them.:
How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive-- Without Killing Your Boss 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "After decades of writing and consulting, Dr. John finally realized that the vast majority of people he kept trying to "energize," "motivate," and "enlighten" were, well, idiots. Also he was an idiot for trying to change them. Instead, he has decided to enlighten you, who actually have to continue working for difficult and demanding bosses. You cannot change them. You cannot challenge them. Yet, you can survive them, even thrive under them, if you learn how to deal with them using this book. It offers hope for the spirit and strategy for the mind to help you deal with your work place situation."
When Smart People Work For Dumb Bosses 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "In When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, William and Kathleen Lundin bring corporate stupidity out of the closet. Through an extensive collection of personal and refreshingly candid interviews with employees at every level, the authors expose a broad range of inflexible, short-sighted, insensitive, and otherwide "dumb" behaviors on the part of management and survey the damage they can have on the people and the organizations they work for, as well as offer solutions for employees to cope. Using the popular co-dependence model to demonstrate why management stupidity is often condoned and even supported, the Lundins provide valuable therapeutic/psychological strategies and suggestions for understanding and dealing with each type of problem in a way that won't cost readers their self-respect, or their job. Milton Moscowitz, co-author of The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America calls it "an inspirational book."
169 Ways to Score Points With Your Boss 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Mr. Schonberg has explained in very clear, numbered statements, what you can do with just a bit of effort to put yourself in a positive light with your boss. Some of the points may seem to only apply to the executive but most can easily be put into use at any job level... All easy to do and all simply explained. After all, the sooner you read the book the sooner you can score points with your boss."
Problem Bosses: Who They Are and How to Deal With Them 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Grothe and Wylie's program does not simply tell the reader what to do, it carefully examines the world of the problem boss, where he comes from, how he got the way he is and why he gets away with it. Then, through a series of exercises, it prods the reader into reaching his own conclusions about his employer/employee relationship."
Work Abuse: How to Recognize and Survive It 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Work abuse is the dehumanizing of people through patterned ways of interacting at work. This includes systematic denial that the abuse is happening, as most abusive managers consider such poisonous treatment to be 'the way the world works.' Work abuse can affect a whole organization, or it can be focused on one individual scapegoat. What's worse, our society as a whole tends to reinforce this attitude, placing the blame on the traumatized victim. When the abuse cannot be redressed at work, it often reappears at home as addiction or family violence. Intended for individual workers and their families, therapists who help them, and managers and union leaders responsible for work systems, this book explains how and why work abuse happens and offers a practical plan for healing, including in-depth case studies, exercises, and worksheets to guide the reader."
Brutal Bosses and Their Prey: How to Identify and Overcome Abuse in the Workplace 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The whole idea of taking back control of your professional life is explored in this short (149 pages) book. It has anecdotal feel to it and a list of types of abusive personalities as well as a questionnaire. Reads fast. Check out the extensive Bibliography. Can see how this type of book could be helpful to some of our clients in trying to identify their sense of betrayal after a poor match in their careers."
It Takes Two: Managing Yourself When Working With Bosses and Other Authority Figures 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book tells not how to manage your boss but how to manage yourself in the relationship with your boss. Based on extensive research, the book maps the patterns of people's responses to authority and provides guidance on how to change yourself and the relationship to be more effective."
Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All Those Impossible People at Work 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book deals with irrational thinking and unconscious motivation at the office--"because people at work aren't always the rational creatures that other management books talk about." The authors cover basic personnel management theory and argue that people's irrational and emotional acts are based on primitive fight, flight, and fright responses--all part of the "dinosaur brain." They identify situations when such behavior is taking place and offer suggestions for what to do when coworkers behave in this manner. Although the basic information may be available in other sources, it is presented clearly and with the right amount of humor in this book."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "The book is divided into 14 broad categories of management activity, ranging from communicating successfully to managing your boss. Each category is accompanied by checklists taken from firms such as Humana and General Electric."
Managing Multiple Bosses: How to Juggle Priorities, Personalities & Projects, and Make It Look Easy 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "Employees may answer to as many as four bosses, each with conflicting priorities and impossible deadlines. Short of cloning themselves or working 18 hours a day, what are overworked staffers to do? The smartest move is to consult this unique book. It's packed with strategies to help anyone handle the pressures of the multi-boss dilemma. Each chapter explores specific responses to multiple demands, such as acting assertively, delegating, managing difficult personalities, and saying no without actually using the word."
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "This book divides difficult people into seven different types namely "hostile-aggressives", "complainers", "silent and unreasponsives", "super-agreeables", "negativists", "know-it-all experts" and "indecisives". Each type of behavior is explained and real-world examples of each in action are given. The forte of the book is how it explains how to cope effectively with each type. In my dealings with others, I've found that the coping advice given is right on target."
Work Smart: The 250 Smart Moves Your Boss Already Knows 
Reviewer/Reader Feedback: "A guide to the unwritten rules of how to think, look, and act at work. Learn how to set and meet goals, handle office politics, master the art of office communication, deal with organizational change, cope with stress and burnout, and more. Whether it's your first day on the job, or your last and you're looking, WORK SMART is an essential advisor." |
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