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100 Ways to Get on the Wrong Side of Your Boss [book]
[9781895186987] |
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| by Franke James (officepolitics.com) |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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An entertaining and humorous read [...] I think that employees will get a lot of good information out of this book. Ideally it will prompt some healthy self-examination. After all, we can all improve. And we all make mistakes. But Garber’s book details some of the funniest and dumbest career blunders ever.
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Harold "Shaf" Shafer, Director (retired), PPG Industries |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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100 Ways to Get on the Wrong Side of your Boss identifies those "career damaging" practices in a sometimes humorous vein, but that are in other ways, unfortunately, too close for comfort. Everyone wants a solid working relationship with the boss. Unfortunately, we tend to look at the relationship from our personal point of view and do not consider the pressures. We always need to consider whether it is the boss or the system that is creating the tension and damaging practices. We also need to examine those practices in which we are strengthening or weakening our personal relationships. The 100 Ways identifies those practices and categorizes them under the following: Communications, Performance, Planning and Organization, Working Relationships, Assignments, Problem Solving, and Feedback. Fortunately, the author also provides a "Better Approach" -- suggestions that may advance a career rather than damage it. I found the best way to read the book is to identify the "100 Points" in the table of contents and then identify those that are "too close for comfort" for me. It is an entertaining book that enables us to analyze our workplace relationships and stay on the right side of our boss.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Reader Views (Bette Daoust) |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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Sometimes it does not take much to be on the wrong side of your boss, just look at anyone's track record, even my own! Do you have a boss that you want to avoid because you always get negative feedback? Is your boss one that only speaks to you if something goes wrong? Are words of praise lacking at your workplace or if there are some, it is only destroyed by the fact that they want more and more from you all the time? As with most businesses, we navigate a world of minefields and to make things even worse, we all find many ways to get on the wrong side of the boss.
Peter Garber's book details all the things we do to ourselves to ensure that things do go wrong and how we put ourselves into jeopardy in every aspect of our life. Yes, there is a boss at home too. At first the title seemed like it was subversive, but once I started reading the book, a whole world of connecting why things go wrong and how to improve situations came to light. Giving insight to the problems and offering solutions is one of the key elements that provide the reader with ways around creating aggravation.
What this book does is give sound practical advice for everyday situations. The advice can be applied in almost any situation. If you read between the lines, the advice given is sound and practical. Tip number 69 talks about making unrealistic requests and the problems that are created as a result. Your credibility goes down the drain each time you make another request and the perception of your work also comes into question. The solution provided is to ask for exactly what you want to provide that you and your work are credible. It reminds me of the budgeting problem in most organizations. You have to ask for money beyond your needs in order to get exactly what you want. The reason this happens is for the same reason, the corporation is used to people making unrealistic requests and in turn, reduce your budget by half or more. Would it not be better to put in a budget that accomplishes exactly what is intended and demonstrate the truth? Garber puts this point across through a solution that requires you to plan well and not to bluff your way through the process.
The book has a solid foundation on good approaches to making your work environment a place for solutions rather than problems. Garber makes excellent points on what makes a boss crazy and even better yet, suggestions on how to perform and work within an organization. "100 Ways to Get on the Wrong Side of Your Boss" is a must-read for anyone that has a boss or wants to be one.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Charles Ashbacher |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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Many people appeal to the concept of "common sense", but the problem with that is that people are often neither common nor sensible. Humans, particularly when under stress, often behave irrationally; doing things that were best left undone. With that as a premise, there were very few of the 100 ways listed in this book that most people with decades of work experience have not done at least once. The key, like all judgement calls, is to do them infrequently and with the lightest possible severity.
The situations listed are in most cases common ones, one that I consider most unlikely is number 19, "Send your boss an e-mail about him or her by mistake." That is one that I have never encountered and only rarely have heard of. Others are very obvious and avoiding them should be applied as general principles of the working environment. Some examples in this category are:
#11 Be a poor listener
#15 Have hidden agendas
#18 Avoid getting to the bottom line
#21 Be evasive
#28 Don't read what your boss sends you
#29 Be a know-it-all
#31 Look at work only from your perspective
#32 Hide your mistakes
#86 Never ask for clarification on assignments
All of these are obvious and should never be a fundamental part of your work persona. Most are deadly to your credibility and it will be destroyed very quickly.
I enjoyed this book, every item in this collection of snippets of advice is sensible and should always be foremost in your mind. Working should be an enjoyable experience, not a way to kill eight hours with the benefits of a salary. By thinking long and hard about how you can work within these guidelines, you will brighten up your work life, improve the work atmosphere of everyone else and quite likely make more money as well.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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| by Midwest Book Review (Small Press BookWatch) |
Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008 |
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One-Hundred Ways To Get On The Wrong Side Of Your Boss: And Strategies To Prevent You From Getting There! by Human Resources professional Peter R. Garber is an informed and informative approach to tactics when dealing with a boss in general, and creating acceptable compromise between employee and employer in particular. An invaluable compendium of one-hundred specific and effective ways to assess particular issues encountered with a boss or workplace manager, One-Hundred Ways To Get On The Wrong Side Of Your Boss ably address such issues as hiding mistakes, being evasive and indifferent, making unrealistic requests, and so much more, with each issue deftly analyzed and providing insight into a more proper approach to dealing with the situation or mental attitude. One-Hundred Ways To Get On The Wrong Side Of Your Boss is very highly recommended and worthwhile reading (especially for workers who not self-employed) as a "how to" manual for getting along with and a boss.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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