When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses: How to Survive in a Crazy and Dysfunctional Workplace - Softcover

Lundin, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071348085 ISBN 13: 9780071348089

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1999

Synopsis

This book is featured in "The Wall Street Journal" and "Fast Company". It looks at real people, real problems, and, real solutions. Suffering under an intimidating supervisor? Mistreated by thoughtless management? Demeaned by a dictator? Bullied by a lazy boss? Used and abused by heartless company policy? You're not alone. The fact is that such nightmare situations are a way of life for many working people. But help is on the way.William and Kathleen Lundin, renowned corporate "therapists" for dysfunctional organizations, have helped hundreds of employees break the cycle. Through candid interviews with the real people who have endured difficult working conditions, this book offers hope for dealing with those "bosses from hell." "When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses" brings corporate stupidity out of the closet. Through stories from the sales manager who actually wields a baseball bat to keep his staff "motivated," to the health care supervisor who flaunts the fact that his policies are unethical, you will learn practical strategies for coping with any dysfunctional workplace and managing your own "dumb boss."

About this title

From the Author:

A Christmas Gift For The Boss in Your Life
I've observed an unpredictable phenomenon. People are slipping our book into their workplaces, letting it lay around, hoping a manager will pick it up. Sandra Schneider, owner of Falls Book Shoppe in Menomonee Falls, Wisc came up with a cute idea. She gift wraps the book and promotes it as a Christmas gift. It's a suggestion that makes sense to me. Or, put another way, how to communicate Getting Scrooged.

Book Description:

It's a sad fact of life, but no matter what kind of business or institution you work in, as an employee you are often subjected to demoralizing--downright dumb--behavior from managers, sometimes on a daily basis. Shortsighted management decisions, thoughtless actions--even rude behavior--are as commonplace as they are unbearable. Furthermore, they are damaging not just on a personal level, but on the organizational level as well. In When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses, William and Kathleen Lundin bring corporate stupidity out of the closet. Through an extensive collection of personal and refreshingly candid interviews with employees at every level, the authors expose a broad range of inflexible, short-sighted, insensitive, and otherwide "dumb" behaviors on the part of management and survey the damage they can have on the people and the organizations they work for, as well as offer solutions for employees to cope. Using the popular co-dependence model to demonstrate why management stupidity is often condoned and even supported, the Lundins provide valuable therapeutic/psychological strategies and suggestions for understanding and dealing with each type of problem in a way that won't cost readers their self-respect, or their job. Milton Moscowitz, co-author of The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America calls it "an inspirational book."

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071348085
• ISBN 13: 9780071348089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185