Author : David Thorne
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780988689572
A collection of essays and emails by New York Times bestselling author David Thorne.
Author : Robert I. Sutton
Publisher : Business Plus
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759518017
The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.
Author : Tessa West
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0593192303
A practical and hilarious guide to getting difficult people off your back, for anyone pulling their hair out over an irritating colleague who's not technically breaking any rules From open floor plans and Zoom calls to Slack channels, the workplace has changed a lot over the years. But there’s one thing that never changes: you’ll always encounter jerks. Jerks at Work is the definitive guide to dealing with—and ultimately breaking free from—the overbearing bosses, irritating coworkers, and all-around difficult people who make work and life miserable. Social psychologist Tessa West has spent years leveraging science to help people solve interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. What she discovered is that most of our go-to tactics don’t work because they fail to address the specific motivations that drive bad behavior. In this book, she takes you on a rollicking deep dive of the seven jerks you’re most likely to encounter at the office, drawing on decades of original research to expose their inner workings and weak points—and ultimately deliver an effective game plan for stopping each type before they take you down with them. Jerks at Work is packed with everyday examples and clever strategies, such as how to: • Stop a Bulldozer from gaining influence by making sure they're not the first to speak up in meetings • Report a Kiss Up/Kick Downer to a manager who idolizes them without looking like the bad guy • Protect your high-achieving team from Free Riders without stifling collaboration • Use a Gaslighter’s tactics to beat them at their own game For anyone who’s said “I can’t stand that jerk!” more times than they’d like to admit, Jerks at Work is the ultimate playbook you wish you didn’t need but will always turn to.
Author : Robert I. Sutton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1328695921
“This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis—what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. “Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource.”—Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before “At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read.”—Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion
Author : Hanleigh Bradley
Publisher : Hanleigh Bradley
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fame. Fortune. And all that. Everything I've never wanted. His, His or His? is the first book in a Contemporary Rockstar Reverse Harem Series by International Bestselling Author, Hanleigh Bradley. Clover has grown up with Rockstars for parents. They expect her to follow in their footsteps. But Clover doesn't want to be famous, she just wants to create the music she loves. Will that change when her twin brother needs her to take his place in the pop band Saving Creed? Her crazy mother puts a wig on her head, bandages up her boobs and throws her onto the stage at the London o2. Suddenly, she finds herself living with four hot men. The only problem? They all think she's her twin brother, Creed! Will Clover be able to keep her identity a secret or will she fall in love with her four band mates? His, His Or His? is the first book in the Lust & Lyrics Reverse Harem Series. She doesn't just want one. She wants them all. "Think She's The Man meets the music industry." Search Terms: romance, new adult, contemporary, dual pov, dual perspective, dual point of view, reverse harem, rh, menage, rockstar, rock star, celebrity romance, love triangle, steamy romance, hot and steamy, billionaire romance, love triangle, slow burn romance, badass female, kickass female, badass woman, NSFW, polyamorous, mé·nage à trois, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, hidden identity, mistaken identity, coming of age, family, twins, dysfunctional, relationships, social situations,
Author : David Thorne
Publisher : 27bslash6
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781735328607
An all new adventure featuring Carl the telepathic cow and his best friend Steven, a sentient packet of chewing gum. Join them as they swim in shark-infested creeks, base jump from the world's tallest hill, and spend the night in an abandoned house said to be haunted by Taylor Swift. "A solid belly laugh at every page turn. Outrageously funny." The Sydney Morning Herald "This may well be the best book about paddleboards and telepathic cows ever written."John Oliver
Author : Hanleigh Bradley
Publisher : Hanleigh Bradley
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Fame. Fortune. And all that. Everything I've never wanted. Lust & Lyrics is a complete Contemporary Rockstar Reverse Harem Series by International Bestselling Author, Hanleigh Bradley. Clover has grown up with Rockstars for parents. They expect her to follow in their footsteps. But Clover doesn't want to be famous, she just wants to create the music she loves. Will that change when her twin brother needs her to take his place in the pop band Saving Creed? Her crazy mother puts a wig on her head, bandages up her boobs and throws her onto the stage at the London o2. Suddenly, she finds herself living with four hot men. The only problem? They all think she's her twin brother, Creed! Will Clover be able to keep her identity a secret or will she fall in love with her four band mates? The Lust & Lyrics Reverse Harem Series consists of three books; His His Or His?, All Mine and Less Than Conventional. She doesn't just want one. She wants them all. "Think She's The Man meets the music industry." Search Terms: romance, new adult, contemporary, dual pov, dual perspective, dual point of view, reverse harem, rh, menage, rockstar, rock star, celebrity romance, love triangle, steamy romance, hot and steamy, billionaire romance, love triangle, slow burn romance, badass female, kickass female, badass woman, NSFW, polyamorous, mé·nage à trois, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, hidden identity, mistaken identity, coming of age, family, twins, dysfunctional, relationships, social situations,
Author : Gavin Oattes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0857088084
Best selling author, award winning comedian and international keynote speaker Gavin Oattes challenges you to live life better than you have to, to never be afraid of your own style and to blow your own god damn mind for a change. Cast your mind back to that album that changed your life? The riffs, the hooks and the lyrics that blew your mind? That movie that moved your whole world and assured you that life was going to be special? Transporting you to a place you’d never been before, the opening chapter of that book that changed your life forever? The hairs on the back of your neck stood, adrenaline rushed through your entire body with the weight of the world gone from your young shoulders. Energised, inspired, alive, all in and ready to turn up to this wonderfully f*cked up thing we call life. Close your eyes and remember that feeling right there in that moment? Life Will See You Now is a rousing, uplifting anthem that will inspire you to put down your phone, rediscover what truly matters and completely rethink what ‘making it’ in life actually means. A personal development title with a difference – there’s no step-by-step guide and no map to change your life – instead, it provides you with hilarious, real life inspiration, motivation and energy to figure it out for yourself and rediscover that wee piece of magic you had when you were just five years old. Oattes makes the argument – backed by both positive psychology and an abundance of childlike wonder – that in an anxious world ruled by pressure, ego and other people's expectations, we are all incredibly lucky to be alive at a time where kindness, gratitude, play and ice-lollies really do matter. Remember, you don't have to do what everyone else is doing. . .
Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307815617
From the Laws of Mount Misery: There are no laws in psychiatry. Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients. On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Psychiatrists specialize in their defects. For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement. From the Laws of Mount Misery: In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis. What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.
Author : John Marsden
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1743346239
"Australia's king of young adult fiction" The Australian She has parents, a brother, friends and a dog. Sometimes the dog seems like the only one she can trust. Her life is about to fall apart. The dog is Checkers. The book is unforgettable. Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanagan will love John Marsden.
