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Summary: It's not a self help book, it's a book that
Review: This book is a no nonsense career development guide for employees and managers alike. Chances are you will find your Achilles' heel inside. The authors do a great job of explaining how to handle a person with a bad habit; and how to help the reader to identify, self-develop, and move away from their own bad habits. The authors gives real life examples without shaming anyone. It's a guide for all walks of life. A must have!!! Expecially for people that want to graduate from their job hopping 20's. It gives people the edge they need to fulfill self actualization, and fix "what feels out of place" in their current organization's social culture. It is well written too.
Rating:
Summary: It's not a self help book, it's a book that
Review: This book is a no nonsense career development guide for employees and managers alike. Chances are you will find your Achilles' heel inside. The authors do a great job of explaining how to handle a person with a bad habit; and how to help the reader to identify, self-develop, and move away from their own bad habits. The authors gives real life examples without shaming anyone. It's a guide for all walks of life. A must have!!! Expecially for people that want to graduate from their job hopping 20's. It gives people the edge they need to fulfill self actualization, and fix "what feels out of place" in their current organization's social culture. It is well written too.
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Summary: Rich contents on behavior characteristic but...
Review: Very well written psychology book on human behavior that you can commonly find in your organization. Not much jargons but in plain simple english. It not only describes the twelve behavior patterns that holding good people back, but also does suggest how to fix and manage them.To depict the 12 hebavior patterns, the authors cleverly use different simple scenarios and business cases to address the orgins of the problem & pattern. They explain why the behavior patterns may limit your career advancement and how should break the behaviour patterns. I personally found that some patterns breaking approach could be helpful but some don't and lack of practical details. The authors seem to suggest most of the cases that the root of these behaviour patterns are arised out of childhood development. Well, I am not sure this is completely correct but you can certainly find more explanation in Part II of the book. The 12 bad habits that hold good people back are listed below: 1. Never feeling good enough
2. Seeing the world in black & white
3. Doing too much, pushing too hard
4. Avoiding conflict at any cost
5. Running roughshod over the opposition
6. Rebel looking for a cause
7. Always swinging for the fence
8. When the fear is in the driver's seat
9. Emotionally tone-deaf
10. When no job is good enough
11. Lacking a sense of boundaries
12. Losing the path To make readers easy to understand and remember these 12 behavior patterns, the authors also name these bad habits as the following easy terms: 1. Acrophobe
Feeling in their heart of hearts that they don't deserve to be where they have been placed. 2. Meritocrat
Seeing the world black & white, with answers that are right or wrong, all weighed on a perfectly fair scale and judged accordingly, on their merits alone. 3. Hero
Constantly trying to do too much and pushing too hard on both themselves and other people. 4. Peacekeeper
Going out of the way to avoid conflict, because of uncertainty about how it will end up. 5. Bulldozer
Talking and acting tough, bullying people, taking no prisoners, and leveling anyone and anything that gets in the way. 6. Rebel
To defy authority and everything associated with authority, including societal tradition, company custom, and good taste. 7. Home run hitter
Expecting & demanding extraordinary and immediate success. 8. Pessimist-Worrier
Seeing the negative and almost nothing but the negative; and worrying about it to excess. 9. Mr. Spocks
Having a hard time recognizing and understanding fear, love, anger, jealousy, greed, compassion, and other emotions in themselves or in others. 10. Coulda-been
These people have very little tolerance for hard work and little patience, not because they're lazy, but because doing the work to get to the top means that they're not already there. When they seem to be saying is "No job is good enough," but what they actually feel inside is "I'm not good enough for any job." 11. Loose Lips
The person who lacks an appropriate sense of boundaries doesn't understand that some subjects belong in the office and some belong only in certain corners of the office and definitely not outside. 12. Dig Deeper
Feeling they have lost their sense of direction, or a sense of enthusiasm that has dimished or disappeared for reasons that are not immediately clear. If you want to know more details, you can find very rich information from Part II of the book. It includes not just a description of the core psychological issue for each behavior pattern, but tools you can use to access yourself in each area, and execrises that you can do to strengthen those weaker psychological "muscles." Overall, this is a pretty interesting book you may want to put in your own collection.
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