How to Work with Just About Anyone
A 3-Step Solution for Getting Difficult People to Change
Excerpt
Chapter One
The Care and Feeding of Problems: How Difficult Behavior Gets Reinforced
What do you do about impossible people? You know the kind:
- The manager who hands you a rush project and insists that you drop everything to get it done. Then the completed report sits on her desk for a month - just the way it did the last time.
- The ambitious colleague who frequently criticizes your work in front of the boss.
- The otherwise good assistant who is chronically late. She always apologizes, but the excuses are as annoying as her tardiness.
It's the chronic offenders like these who drive you crazy, not the people who occasionally irritate. You can cope with your manager's bad day from time to time. It's when she' ... read full excerpt from How to Work with Just about Anyone: A 3-Step Solution for Getting Difficult People to Change ebook