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

by Gini Graham Scott

Book Overview

"The relationships you have with your coworkers can determine not just how pleasant your 9-to-5 life is, but also your ability to get your job done, and even your long-term career success. Packed with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814472052
• ISBN13: 9780814472057
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Rodney King guide to the Workplace

This book is really great; I call it the Rodney King guide to the workplace because it really is about "Can't we all just get along?" And, if we can't....then it gives you the guidelines to follow to see heads roll, or sometimes, how to choose to lose your own head on the chopping block. I like that it doesn't give a "pat" answer, but provides several best/worse case scenarios & allows you to think the problem out, hopefully BEFORE you encounter it. If you are in the middle of dealing with one of these treasured co-workers, then this guide will be very helpful in giving you strategy for dealing with the problem in a real life way. Loved it!

Helpful for Anyone who Works with Humans

This book provides some very useful information that will assist any manager in helping their staff members to work better with each other. It is clearly and thoughtfully written. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with Humans!

Definitely good book.

I like the stories in the book. Those are prime examples of people I saw and I'm seeing every day. The book is excellent for understanding different people and different situations in which you might interact with them. Obviously the book is written by someone who understands people's mind.

Love to Work but Hate the People

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.

Practical recipes for handling difficult people on the job

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.