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Dealing With People You Can't Stand
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Dealing With People You Can't Stand

How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

McGraw-Hill, 2002 plus...

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Editorial Rating

6

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • For Beginners
  • Engaging

Recommendation

You know these people from the office: the dominating Tank, the undermining Sniper, the explosive Grenade and the smarmy Know-It-All. For your sake, here’s hoping you only have one or two of them running around your cubicle farm. Unfortunately, the work world is fraught with complainers, cheats, toadies and downers. To avoid becoming a downer yourself, you need coping strategies. Authors Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner describe 10 difficult, if slightly contrived, personalities and provide communications techniques for dealing with them. This is not a textbook, being slim on attributions and facts. It is, rather, a feel-good handbook of simple suggestions for using tactics and popular psychology to deal with someone you’d actually rather strangle. Given that choice, conversation is a better strategy. getAbstract hopes it works for you, and suggests this light but well-intentioned book to human resources professionals, managers with problem employees and you, if you’re feeling particularly homicidal about that knuckle-cracking, gum-popping slacker in the next cubby.

Take-Aways

  • You can take one of four approaches when coping with difficult people: do nothing, walk away, change your attitude or change your approach in dealing with them.
  • People respond to different situations with varying degrees of assertiveness.
  • People operate in a normal zone of emotions ranging from aggression to passivity.

About the Authors

Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner began their careers as holistic physicians who addressed the emotional and mental aspects of wellness and healing. They co-authored Life by Design, Making Wise Choices in a Mixed Up World, as well as video and audiotapes. Their clients include AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Texaco, the U.S. Army and the Young Presidents Organization.


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    J. S. 1 decade ago
    I would hope the full book has more specific tactics for dealing with each of the types mentioned. The sound bite nature of the abstract is not so helpful on this topic and if this is a genuine request for help this will not really help more than helping to classify what kind of problem person you are facing