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Diffuse conflict, avoid negativity, and create a productive workplace
In The Office Survival Guide, clinical psychologist and executive coach Marilyn Puder-York offers practical solutions to the common problems that can ruin a career or simply make office life miserable. This book includes examples from real-life offices thatyou can adapt to your situation, and shows you how to "manage up" to problematic supervisors, "manage down" to difficult subordinates, and "manage across" to troublesome peers. In no time at all, you'll be better able to deal with
* Office politics * Crisis-management situations * Passive-aggressive colleagues * Corporate restructures * Mixed signals from superiors * New technologies in the office
"Every employee wants to know what are the secrets to getting ahead. Marilyn Puder-York nails it with practical, how-to tips, ideas and solutions. This should be a MUST read whether you are 26 or 46."--Cathleen Black, president of Hearst Magazines
"A real find!! Sound and powerful advice for surviving office difficulties."--Maggie Gagliardi, Senior Vice President, Human Resources American Express Company
"Marilyn Puder-York has made an extremely positive impact on our ability to retain talented people in our organization."--Douglas Stern, President/CEO, United Media
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Diffuse conflict, avoid negativity, and create a productive workplace
In The Office Survival Guide, clinical psychologist and executive coach Marilyn Puder-York offers practical solutions to the common problems that can ruin a career or simply make office life miserable. This book includes examples from real-life offices thatyou can adapt to your situation, and shows you how to "manage up" to problematic supervisors, "manage down" to difficult subordinates, and "manage across" to troublesome peers. In no time at all, you'll be better able to deal with
* Office politics * Crisis-management situations * Passive-aggressive colleagues * Corporate restructures * Mixed signals from superiors * New technologies in the office
"Every employee wants to know what are the secrets to getting ahead. Marilyn Puder-York nails it with practical, how-to tips, ideas and solutions. This should be a MUST read whether you are 26 or 46."--Cathleen Black, president of Hearst Magazines
"A real find!! Sound and powerful advice for surviving office difficulties."--Maggie Gagliardi, Senior Vice President, Human Resources American Express Company
"Marilyn Puder-York has made an extremely positive impact on our ability to retain talented people in our organization."--Douglas Stern, President/CEO, United Media
Today's office is all too often not a cozy place. Read the first page
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The book really has two strengths in my opinion. The first is that it emphasizes both internal and external analysis of the given office political situations. The author guides you through the process of stepping back from the situation and exploring first the internal factors that drove you to arrive at your initial emotional reaction. The author spends a lot of time encouraging you to think about your past, how you were raised, and your relationships with your siblings. That line of thinking makes sense, as many of those behaviors will often determine how we deal with the rest of life.
The author then forces you to examine external factors in the given situation. For example, is the super-competitive coworker really out to ruin your career, or is he secretly insecure and afraid that he'll lose his job? Is your boss really a good guy who's under a lot of stress and therefore acting a little irrationally, or is he a destructive narcissist who doesn't care who he hurts on his way to the top? Examining these external drivers for office politics helps you remove yourself from the visceral emotions of the moment.
The second thing I really like is the explanation that once you've graduated past the lower levels of your chosen profession, how well you "play politics" is just as important to the success of your career as your technical proficiency. It's an unfortunate truth, but the author explains how corporate America has moved away from the meritocratic promotion system of the past to the more politics-driven companies that we know and work for. Being starkly confronted with this fact, I can now look and realize places in the past where I may have stunted my career growth by caring more about my programming ability than my ability to comfortably socialize with my boss and coworkers.
What's really nice about this book is that the author gives real, practical advice on how to handle these situations. I was afraid that this would be a book whose answer to every problem is to hold hands with your boss/coworker/subordinate and sing Kumbaya, but thankfully, the author gives frank advice on how to deal with the various scenarios. Oftentimes, when internal and external examination reveals a truly toxic situation and not just temporary office stress, the author gives you real advice on how to notify HR (if you even should), cover your back, and extricate yourself from the situation, should you think it's time to move on to another department or company.
The tips in this book are golden. To me, the true testament of any book is when I read it and think, "I wish someone had given me this book years ago." That's exactly what I thought after reading this book.
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