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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.
- Franke James at www.Office-Politics.com
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 addresses 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 are not self-employed) as a "how to" manual
for getting along with a boss.
- Midwest Book Review
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.
- Harold "Shaf" Shafer, Director (retired), PPG
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