Working for You Isnt Working for Me, Katherine Crowley
Working for You Isnt Working for Me, Katherine Crowley
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Working for You Isn't Working for Me
The Ultimate Guide to Managing Your Boss

Author: Katherine Crowley, Kathi Elster

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/06/2009


Synopsis

A groundbreaking guide to dealing with difficult bosses by two bestselling experts

In their bestseller Working with You Is Killing Me, Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster taught readers how to free themselves from emotional traps created by difficult colleagues. Now they apply their research and insights to the challenges of "toxic bosses." Sooner or later, we all work for someone we can't stand. When that happens, some people quit, some suffer in silence, and others cope by sulking, obsessing, avoiding, or retaliating. But it's better to take control by applying the four-step process in this book:

• Detect: Am I crazy or is my boss driving me crazy?
• Detach: Accept that you can't change your boss, but you can take back your power.
• Depersonalize: Learn to take your supervisor's behavior less personally.
• Deal: Devise a plan to get what you need, manage your boss, and move your career forward.

Filled with concrete examples, this book will help readers take back their power from even the most challenging bad bosses- chronic critics, yellers, unconscious discriminators, control freaks, pathological liars, and more.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on July 14, 2020

I stumbled upon this book when I hit a rough patch with my boss. I mean, really rough. In a no-nonsense way, it helped me diagnose the problem. I was able to figure out what kind of manager I was dealing with and how I may be contributing to the situation. Most importantly, it helped lift me above t......more

Goodreads review by Scott on May 27, 2024

Although I write a lot of book reviews, I usually don’t review psychology-related books because their value is so subjective. What’s most valuable to me as a worker in a non-psychological enterprise, isn’t necessarily valuable to everyone else. Thus, I have a hard time ascertaining a psychology-rela......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on October 29, 2017

Although I don't currently have "boss troubles," I certainly have in the past and found this book to be actually very helpful for even generally positive work environments. Although I'm somewhat skeptical of relying too much on "types" to stereotype communication styles, I did find it helpful here t......more