A Survival Guide for Working With Humans: Dealing With Whiners, Back-Stabbers, Know-It-Alls, and Other Difficult People

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Summary: Practical recipes for handling difficult people on the job
Review: Gini Scott's A Survival Guide For Working With Humans: Dealing With Whiners, Back-Stabbers, Know-It-Alls, And Other Difficult People highlights specific problems and uses case history examples to show how they were effectively solved. Short, practical recipes for handling difficult people on the job, ranging from a tyrannical boss to sensitive colleagues and plain incompetents, provide anyone in the business world with a host of tips to problem-solving troubled relationships. All levels of workers will find A Survival Guide For Working With Humans to be an invaluable reference.

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Summary: Love to Work but Hate the People
Review: I love to work. It is the people with whom I work that transform my hours at work into an unpleasant experience.

In Survival Guide for Working with Humans, Gini Graham Scott offers me practical tools to help me resolve my everyday conflicts.

Each chapter introduces a problem and offers one or two illustrations of them. A discussion of what the people did to resolve their problems successfully follows. Some of the problems covered include revenge, fraud, and overly sensitive people. As a bonus, the author includes a toolbox of techniques for improving work relationships.

Since I love my work, the price of this book was a small price to pay to improve my relationships there.