Rating: 
Summary: Job satisfaction is a choice
Review: If the 'competent leadership vacuum common to most organizations' has driven you nearly insane, you need to read this book. It has a lot of strategies for changing your mindset (since you can't change what he doesn't have). The book leads you from wanting to strangle your boss to realizing that idiots are people too (including the idiot reading the book). Best nickname for an ineffective boss: Mr. Cellophane Best individual insight: Idiot bosses seek rigidity in their lives as a substitute for competency. Best committee insight: Groupthink occurs when members of a group disguise anonymity as unanimity at the expense of quality. Best advice: You must look at the good things in life and the bad things in life and say 'well, all right then' to both. Negatives: The methods for getting along with your idiot boss range from simple camouflage to outright manipulation. Chapters are loosely organized around 12-step programs, but the content is not closely tied to this concept, so it distracts from the otherwise good material.
Rating:
Summary: Job satisfaction is a choice
Review: If the 'competent leadership vacuum common to most organizations' has driven you nearly insane, you need to read this book. It has a lot of strategies for changing your mindset (since you can't change what he doesn't have). The book leads you from wanting to strangle your boss to realizing that idiots are people too (including the idiot reading the book). Best nickname for an ineffective boss: Mr. Cellophane Best individual insight: Idiot bosses seek rigidity in their lives as a substitute for competency. Best committee insight: Groupthink occurs when members of a group disguise anonymity as unanimity at the expense of quality. Best advice: You must look at the good things in life and the bad things in life and say 'well, all right then' to both. Negatives: The methods for getting along with your idiot boss range from simple camouflage to outright manipulation. Chapters are loosely organized around 12-step programs, but the content is not closely tied to this concept, so it distracts from the otherwise good material.
Rating:
Summary: A Good Read!
Review: John Hoover, an organizational leadership consultant, discusses how to deal with an "Idiot Boss" - or I-Boss - who does stupid things. Hoover distinguishes idiots from other tricky bosses, including those who think they are God, or who are paranoid, sadistic or Machiavellian. He leaves the reader with a couple of issues. First, you'll think no good, caring bosses still exist. Second, he doesn't tell you clearly where to set boundaries or when enough is finally enough. He often advocates appeasing bad bosses, although his other counsel on how to deal with them has some effective pointers. To his credit, Hoover is very candid about how he has learned from experience, including his mistakes. He offers personal examples from his experiences at Disney and elsewhere, and tries to write in a light-hearted or whimsical vein. We found the book strongest when it is strategic and weakest when it tries to be funny, given that with bad bosses you only laugh to keep from crying.
Rating: 
Summary: Funny and helpful
Review: This book is amazing. The author has done a great justice to all idiot bosses out there. The book is a fun read and can actually help with daily work life. This is one that has been passed around my office since it came out and a great gift to give your friend stuck in boss hell. Just make sure your boss does not spot it on your desk......
Rating:
Summary: Funny and helpful
Review: This book is amazing. The author has done a great justice to all idiot bosses out there. The book is a fun read and can actually help with daily work life. This is one that has been passed around my office since it came out and a great gift to give your friend stuck in boss hell. Just make sure your boss does not spot it on your desk......
Rating:
Summary: More than words
Review: This is an excellent book. Having suffered for four years from an idiot, sadist, masochist, and all the other categories that Dr. Hoover describes, I found it of excellent encouragment to have read the book. With funny real (or unreal) stories, the author goes through different bosses' personalities and how to approach them. I've tried a few things for a few days and I've felt marvellous, when long before I would have felt miserable. Even if some of the things Dr. Hoover says are things we already know, it was great that someone reminded me what the true nature of boss-employee relationships are all about.
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Summary: Reviews are Piling Up
Review: USA TODAY/March 2004:
"Anyone who has to work should read How to Work for an Idiot." Wall Street Journal/March 2004
"Dr. Hoover recommends admitting that you are 'powerless' over the jerks in your life. Otherwise, 'harboring all that resentment is like drinking a cup of poison and waiting for the jerk to die'." New York Times/January 2004:
"There is no question that 'How to Work for an Idiot: How to Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss' is a subversive book. People will pick it up expecting a tasty blend of commiseration and advice. They will put it down thinking, to paraphrase the famous line from the cartoon character Pogo, "We have met the idiot, and he is us." Weekend TODAY SHOW/Campbell Brown/January 2004
"'How to Work for an Idiot' contains a lot of humor, with plenty of good information as well." FOX NEWS/Neil Cavuto/January 2004:
"Dr. John's 'How to Work for an Idiot' is very funny stuff, with some stinging jabs in there." The Miami Herald/January 2004:
"As amusing as his vignettes may be, the proffered advice is pretty sound and includes solid steps for coping and surviving a daily dose of determined and authoritative stupidity without committing any capital crimes. Hoover closes with a bibliography that includes three of the author's own books, so maybe he's not as much of an idiot as he claims to be." Dallas Morning News January/2004:
"[Dr. John Hoover] is creating a New Year's buzz with his just published 'How to Work for an Idiot'." Bloomberg Television/December 2003:
"If you have the unhappy experience of working for someone you think is a real jerk, Dr. John Hoover says there is hope." Bloomberg Radio Network/December 2003:
"Dr. John's book about working for idiots is so cleverly disguised; you might think you're reading Norman Vincent Peale." CNNfn/December 2003:
"...an irreverent and realistic look at what people must deal with every day at work." Philadelphia Daily Local/December 2003:
"Hoover, a self-acknowledged idiot boss himself in recovery, says American workers should stop whining about their clueless bosses and learn to make the most of it." Minneapolis Star Tribune/December 2003:
"There's more than humor in this fresh look at the perennial problem of incompetent leadership at work." Orlando Sentinel/December 2003:
"Idiot bosses are so common, writes John Hoover, that he shortens the term to I-Bosses in How to Work for an Idiot."
Rating: 
Summary: Funny but no meat
Review: USA TODAY/March 2004:
"Anyone who has to work should read How to Work for an Idiot." Wall Street Journal/March 2004
"Dr. Hoover recommends admitting that you are `powerless' over the jerks in your life. Otherwise, `harboring all that resentment is like drinking a cup of poison and waiting for the jerk to die'." New York Times/January 2004:
"There is no question that 'How to Work for an Idiot: How to Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss' is a subversive book. People will pick it up expecting a tasty blend of commiseration and advice. They will put it down thinking, to paraphrase the famous line from the cartoon character Pogo, "We have met the idiot, and he is us." Weekend TODAY SHOW/Campbell Brown/January 2004
"`How to Work for an Idiot' contains a lot of humor, with plenty of good information as well." FOX NEWS/Neil Cavuto/January 2004:
"Dr. John's `How to Work for an Idiot' is very funny stuff, with some stinging jabs in there." The Miami Herald/January 2004:
"As amusing as his vignettes may be, the proffered advice is pretty sound and includes solid steps for coping and surviving a daily dose of determined and authoritative stupidity without committing any capital crimes. Hoover closes with a bibliography that includes three of the author's own books, so maybe he's not as much of an idiot as he claims to be." Dallas Morning News January/2004:
"[Dr. John Hoover] is creating a New Year's buzz with his just published 'How to Work for an Idiot'." Bloomberg Television/December 2003:
"If you have the unhappy experience of working for someone you think is a real jerk, Dr. John Hoover says there is hope." Bloomberg Radio Network/December 2003:
"Dr. John's book about working for idiots is so cleverly disguised; you might think you're reading Norman Vincent Peale." CNNfn/December 2003:
"...an irreverent and realistic look at what people must deal with every day at work." Philadelphia Daily Local/December 2003:
"Hoover, a self-acknowledged idiot boss himself in recovery, says American workers should stop whining about their clueless bosses and learn to make the most of it." Minneapolis Star Tribune/December 2003:
"There's more than humor in this fresh look at the perennial problem of incompetent leadership at work." Orlando Sentinel/December 2003:
"Idiot bosses are so common, writes John Hoover, that he shortens the term to I-Bosses in How to Work for an Idiot."
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