The Workplace Survival Guide

An illustrated guide to surviving today's turbulent and challenging workplace from the authors of The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Boss's Survival Guide Forget the Australian Outback or the Amazon jungle-today's toughest survival challenge is the minefield we call work. It's impossible to "do more with less," especially with the looming threat of another reorganization, layoff, or other dramatic change. The good news is that you've got a new power tool for what ails you at work: Gray Matters. This inventive new book combines lively visuals, engaging characters, and impudent humor. But Gray Matters also offers hope and proven strategies to show you how to succeed at work today: how to sell successfully how to survive a layoff how to overcome the stress and pressure of today's frenetic workplace. Think Dilbert with a solution. Your tour guides are the employees of GlobalGadget: Gray Blanderson, a frazzled employee seeking a promotion; Rick Newman, Gray's nemesis; S. P. Chan g, a Gen-Xer and a wise soul; and Virginia Edgarly, Gray's boss who will do whatever is required to be the next CEO. A follow-up to the bestseller, The Boss's Survival Guide, this new book is a must for all managers in this turbulent work environment. This funny guide will help managers navigate change, improve morale and develop business strategies. WARNING: Gray Matters is addictive; get ready to laugh and learn.

The Workplace Survival Guide gives you an arsenal of business-tested techniques and strategies to help you become a job survivor and control your own destiny in today's fast-changing working world. For example, you'll learn how to lessen the chances of being laid off as well as how to search for a new job and negotiate an even higher salary than what you're offered. You'll find techniques for guarding against the financial disasters that can happen if you suddenly become unemployed. You'll see what to do if you need to relocate to find employment.

The workplace can be a difficult environment for people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) and this often impedes their ability to make use of particular skills and sustain meaningful and fulfilling employment. This is the definitive guide to surviving and thriving in the workplace for people with AS. It includes everything from realistic strategies for meeting employer expectations, to how to get along with your colleagues and work as part of a team, multitask and manage projects, and handle anxiety and effectively resolve problems. Common employment challenges are illustrated through examples from the author's extensive experience coaching individuals with AS at all job levels, from entry-level to manager and professional positions. The pragmatic recommendations in the book will benefit anyone with AS who is entering the workforce, as well as those who struggle to maintain employment, or who want to improve their performance and advance their careers.

The long overdue follow-up to Miniter's bestselling The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Manhood, this hilarious and colorful guide to surviving the modern office is an absolute must for any man whose instincts are frequently leading him into saying and doing the absolute wrong thing in the workplace. And yes, we're talking about you.

Learn how to lead and manage people in an organization that values process over departments and horizontal organization over vertical structure. DuBrin suggests specific ways and provides tools to free yourself from traditional management paradigms and grasp the new leadership protocol.

The Toxic Workplace Survival Guide is the perfect self-help book for anyone who desperately wants to improve their life at work. It is a comprehensive guide that helps employees thrive and be more productive in toxic workplaces. In this fresh take on how to deal with negativity and toxicity in the workplace, you will learn: How to identify a toxic work environment Ways to deal with difficult people and situations Tips for improving your own attitude and mindset An action plan for taking your life back and defeating stress This guide is packed with real-life examples, exercises, and action steps that will help you create a positive change in your professional life. Working in a toxic workplace can feel like an impossible task. You're surrounded by negativity and stress, and it's hard to keep your head up. But with The Toxic Workplace Survival Guide, you can learn how to thrive in even the most difficult of situations. This book is packed with helpful advice and tips on how to stay positive and focused, as well as strategies for creating an action plan if things get too tough. If you're struggling with a toxic work environment, this book can help you find peace in the storm and get back to being your best self.

“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

A delightful collection of jokes, trivia, lists, quotes, cartoons and timeless “water-cooler wisdom” Today’s American workforce is massive, numbering more than 157 million people. However, these people are stressed out. According to the American Psychological Association, more than 75 percent of us are stressed to the max by our jobs. In a separate study (conducted by Harris Polls), people cited work/money as the most stressful thing in their lives. Clearly, we need a daily dose of some workplace humor, a Job Survival Kit in handy book form. Thank heaven that Wit & Wisdom for the Workplace is on the job! Wit and Wisdom packs a winning blend of humor and insight - sure to brighten up those stressful or tedious days on the job. It’s the kind of book that can have you laughing so hard, you just might get reported to Human Resources!.