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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Jobby Jonathan Littman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Face it, whether your company has 10 employees or 10,000, you must grapple with people you can't stand in the office. Luckily Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have written I HATE PEOPLE , a smart, counter-intuitive, andirreverentturn on the classic workplace self-help book that will show you how to identify theTen Least Wanted--the people you hate--whilerevealing the strategies to neutralize them. Learn to fly right by the Stop Sign (nay-sayer) and rise above the pronouncements of the Know-it-None. I HATE PEOPLE will teach you how to carve out more time for yourself by becominga Soloist--one of those bold individuals daring to work alone or collaborate with a handful of other talented people....while artfully deflecting the rest. Review:"Playboy contributing editor Littman (coauthor of The Art of Innovation) and Hershon, comedian and branding expert, offer a guide for surviving corporate life, flush with clever nomenclature for specific types of exasperating co-workers, such as the 'Stop Sign,' who always has a reason your idea won't work, or the 'Bulldozer,' who bullies his projects through the system. But rather than offering constructive ways of collaborating with problematic colleagues, Hershon and Littman spend most of the book suggesting ways to avoid them altogether by being a 'soloist,' a corporate loner who taps into innovative reserves rather than bending to be a team player. The authors give examples of such successful soloists as Craig Newmark, corporate misfit and founder of Craig's List. While amusing and filled with entertaining examples of antisocial geeks who made good, the aim and audience of the book is unclear. The reader is left wondering if it is better to opt out of corporate life altogether rather than have to confront co-workers who exhibit chronically unacceptable behavior. (June)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:Littman and Hershon have written a smart, counterintuitive, and irreverent turn on the classic workplace self-help book that shows how to identify the Ten Least Wanted--the people that are hated--while revealing the strategies to neutralize them.
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