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Summary: Experts Hail WORKING WOUNDED!!
Review: "I rarely commend books, but I am a great admirer of Bob Rosner's thinking, and writing. I read his column every week, to learn (and laugh). This book is a wonderful distillation of his wisdom. I commend it to everyone."
---RICHARD BOLLES, author of "What Color is Your Parachute?" "Read this and you won't be wounded at work.!"
---HARVEY MACKAY, author of "Swim with the Sharks and Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty" "The most informative and subversive business book I've read in years. It works because it's ironic without being cynical, in-your-face and still wise."
---GIFFORD PINCHOT, bestselling author of "Intrapreneuring: Why You Don't Have to Leave the Corporations to Become an Entrepreneur" "WORKING WOUNDED is your survival tool for work. It will help you solve your own problems without relying on H.R. 'secrets.' Get ready to laugh and learn."
---PAM HARKINS, director of human resources, Starbucks Coffee Company "WORKING WOUNDED is right on the money, delivering smart advice that makes you smile."
---JANE BRYAN QUINN, Newsweek columnist and author of "Making the Most of Your Money" "I've known Bob Rosner to be full of opinion and attitude since I recruited him to write a monthly sports column for our high school newspaper. Now he has written a book on how you can survive the workplace and dignity and, well, attitude. Bob's book is salve for the working stiff."
---JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, executive editor of Inc. Magazine "A lively treatment of a sore subject...an ample mix of wisdom, humor, and empathy."
---WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS, chairman of Browning-Ferris Industries and founding director of the Environment Protection Agency. "WORKING WOUNDED is not only a friend of the working person, it also offers skills and tools to survive in the workplace. If you're employed, you need to read it."
---WALLY AMOS, author of "Watermelon Magic: Seeds of Wisdom, Slices of Life" "Funny...helpful...balm for the 'working wounded' across America. His advice on becoming an entrepreneur is right on target."
---JANE APPLEGATE, syndicated small business columnists and author of "201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business" "Readers will learn something new and will certainly enjoy this book."
---HANS GUTSCH, senior vice president of human resources and environment for Compaq Computer Corporation "We are all, at one time or another, one of the 'working wounded'. This is a fabulous compilation of some of the best business advice about coping in the workplace."
--JULIE BICK, author of "All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft"
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Summary: Winning your personal war with workplace woes!
Review: A humorous and informative collection of essays by a syndicated columnist, with the assistance of a talented cartoonist, Robert Mankoff, that addresses some of the most common, disturbing and intractable problems folks, at any level, face in the day-to-day workplace. From being assaulted from above to battered from below to surviving layoff or dismissal, this entertaining book gives down-to-earth advice. The theme is that solutions to your workplace problems need to be devised by you. Liberally peppered with cartoons, quips, brief stories and quotes, this work provides a lot of to-the-point guidance. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, author of Stern's Sourcefinder The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources and the CyberSpace SourceFinder.
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Summary: Must read, must buy if you don't like your job
Review: First Aid for the Working Wounded by T.S. Peric'
Most of us, at some point in our working career, labored within a crummy company, faced-off with a bullying boss or suffered the ignominy of a firing.
Most of us have shared workplace horror stories or listened sympathetically to someone who really took a battering. Let's face it. Workplace dissatisfaction ranks high on the angst scale for the 90s and this is the audience to which nationally syndicated columnist Bob Rosner directs his book, Working Wounded: Advice that Adds Insight to Injury (Warner Books). While bookshelves are littered by the bunches with titles on job hunting, job coping and job escaping, Rosner manages to whip out a bouquet that offers a few, fresh petals. Too many job-help books sound like a dry managerial tract from some experimental work environment which exists only in the mind of the writer. Rosner's laboratory is real: true-life stories culled from calls for help he gathers through a weekly column and a Working Wounded website (workingwounded.com). Fortunately, Rosner manages to describe this with a sense of humorous outrage that makes for a good read. Rosner's faces the task about changing a bull-headed boss' inflexibility to your way of thinking in "Hold the Garlic! I Want My Boss to Shape-Change". He goes on to note "His [the boss] name was Dick-but we called him 'Cold Shower' because that's what he gave to every new idea that came across his desk. After collecting more bullet holes than a stop sign on a country road, I finally decided to bring him an idea he couldn't shoot down-one of his own."
Rosner dispenses advice from the experts who are familiar with the workplace, covering basic issues such as "Poked From All Sides: How to Cope with Your Co-Workers" to gathering confidence in our burgeoning techno-state with "Stuck In The Web: How To Score Points with Technology". Rosner offers advice in a lively, succinct fashion, sprinkling the book with timely tidbits abou!t working that leave you nodding in agreement or shaking your head in anger. First, there's "The Working Wounded Quotebook".
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde.
Second, you have the Working Wounded List.
"They Asked You What . . . Real Questions Asked During Real Job Interviews
A Wall Street bank asked women MBA graduates, 'Would you have an abortion to stay on the fast track?'
While discount department store asked interviewees, 'How long can you hold your urine?'"
Finally, my favorite: the e-mail received at Working Wounded.
1) "The Best Way to get a Promotion
"Be on time, learn your job, go the extra mile, and don't suck up to the boss.
2) "The Other Best Way to Get a Promotion
Two words: kiss butt!"
3) "Scrooge Lives. Last year at the Christmas party, the boss gave us all Christmas cards. We opened them up only to find pink slips inside. He said he thought the party atmosphere would take the edge off of being let go."
And if you ever tire of reading of reading about the workplace, as a diversion you can relax with drawings from The New Yorker cartoonist Robert Mankoff which are found throughout the book.
What Rosner never forgets in Working Wounded is that real people populate the workplace and that a deft combination of experience, inspiration, information and humor is the key to surviving a fresh wound and, if you recover, there just might be hope for you on the next job.
How good is this book? When my sister Millie (an erudite, eclectic reader with a varied work history and a cool disposition to self-help employment books) leafed through the Working Wounded, she had a single comment: "When you're done with this, could I take a look?" She also like the cartoons.
Regardless of the type of work you do, Working Wounded's message is about emotional protection on the job. Every smart police officer hits the streets with a bulletproof vest. That's how you should regard Working Wounded: Try it !on for size and it'll help you survive the bullets. - 30 -
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Summary: Must read, must buy if you don't like your job
Review: First Aid for the Working Wounded by T.S. Peric'Most of us, at some point in our working career, labored within a crummy company, faced-off with a bullying boss or suffered the ignominy of a firing.Most of us have shared workplace horror stories or listened sympathetically to someone who really took a battering. Let's face it. Workplace dissatisfaction ranks high on the angst scale for the 90s and this is the audience to which nationally syndicated columnist Bob Rosner directs his book, Working Wounded: Advice that Adds Insight to Injury (Warner Books). While bookshelves are littered by the bunches with titles on job hunting, job coping and job escaping, Rosner manages to whip out a bouquet that offers a few, fresh petals. Too many job-help books sound like a dry managerial tract from some experimental work environment which exists only in the mind of the writer. Rosner's laboratory is real: true-life stories culled from calls for help he gathers through a weekly column and a Working Wounded website (workingwounded.com). Fortunately, Rosner manages to describe this with a sense of humorous outrage that makes for a good read. Rosner's faces the task about changing a bull-headed boss' inflexibility to your way of thinking in "Hold the Garlic! I Want My Boss to Shape-Change". He goes on to note "His [the boss] name was Dick-but we called him 'Cold Shower' because that's what he gave to every new idea that came across his desk. After collecting more bullet holes than a stop sign on a country road, I finally decided to bring him an idea he couldn't shoot down-one of his own."Rosner dispenses advice from the experts who are familiar with the workplace, covering basic issues such as "Poked From All Sides: How to Cope with Your Co-Workers" to gathering confidence in our burgeoning techno-state with "Stuck In The Web: How To Score Points with Technology". Rosner offers advice in a lively, succinct fashion, sprinkling the book with timely tidbits abou!t working that leave you nodding in agreement or shaking your head in anger. First, there's "The Working Wounded Quotebook"."Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde.Second, you have the Working Wounded List."They Asked You What . . . Real Questions Asked During Real Job InterviewsA Wall Street bank asked women MBA graduates, 'Would you have an abortion to stay on the fast track?'While discount department store asked interviewees, 'How long can you hold your urine?'"Finally, my favorite: the e-mail received at Working Wounded.1)"The Best Way to get a Promotion"Be on time, learn your job, go the extra mile, and don't suck up to the boss.2)"The Other Best Way to Get a PromotionTwo words: kiss butt!"3)"Scrooge Lives. Last year at the Christmas party, the boss gave us all Christmas cards. We opened them up only to find pink slips inside. He said he thought the party atmosphere would take the edge off of being let go."And if you ever tire of reading of reading about the workplace, as a diversion you can relax with drawings from The New Yorker cartoonist Robert Mankoff which are found throughout the book.What Rosner never forgets in Working Wounded is that real people populate the workplace and that a deft combination of experience, inspiration, information and humor is the key to surviving a fresh wound and, if you recover, there just might be hope for you on the next job.How good is this book? When my sister Millie (an erudite, eclectic reader with a varied work history and a cool disposition to self-help employment books) leafed through the Working Wounded, she had a single comment: "When you're done with this, could I take a look?" She also like the cartoons.Regardless of the type of work you do, Working Wounded's message is about emotional protection on the job. Every smart police officer hits the streets with a bulletproof vest. That's how you should regard Working Wounded: Try it !on for size and it'll help you survive the bullets. - 30 -
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Summary: lord save us...
Review: Great cartoons, shallow insight
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Summary: Working Wounded. As If Dilbert Came To Life...
Review: I bought the "Working Wounded" as a gift for the members of a team I once worked on. I felt that many of the situations that Bob Rosner brought to light measured up with how we dealt with our day. It went over quite well, and was entertaining as well as enlightening. I look forward to a second volume.
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Summary: Working Wounded. As If Dilbert Came To Life...
Review: I bought the "Working Wounded" as a gift for the members of a team I once worked on. I felt that many of the situations that Bob Rosner brought to light measured up with how we dealt with our day. It went over quite well, and was entertaining as well as enlightening. I look forward to a second volume.
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Summary: This book could have been so much more
Review: I heard the last 5 minutes of a radio interview with the Bob Rosner and had great hopes for this book. He interviews a lot better...
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Summary: It's a Biography....
Review: I read the book Working Wounded in a couple of days. It is actually a quick read and rather humorous at times. There is a lot of great reference material in there.
The author was really writing his own biography throughout most of the book. I am thrilled that he had such wonderful oportunities in the past and in his future. This book is best just for the Bibliography. Unfortunately, it doesn't have one so you have to read it chapter by chapter to get the books that may be relevant to what you need additional information to. Good Luck, Bob! To everyone else, buy a different book, see if someone will loan you theirs, go to the library. Save the dough, because I don't think you will find it as insightful as the title implies.
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Summary: It's a Biography....
Review: I read the book Working Wounded in a couple of days. It is actually a quick read and rather humorous at times. There is a lot of great reference material in there. The author was really writing his own biography throughout most of the book. I am thrilled that he had such wonderful oportunities in the past and in his future. This book is best just for the Bibliography. Unfortunately, it doesn't have one so you have to read it chapter by chapter to get the books that may be relevant to what you need additional information to. Good Luck, Bob! To everyone else, buy a different book, see if someone will loan you theirs, go to the library. Save the dough, because I don't think you will find it as insightful as the title implies.
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