How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive-- Without Killing Your Boss

Hoover, John

ISBN 10: 1564147045 / ISBN 13: 9781564147042

Published by Career Pr Inc, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive-- Without Killing Your Boss
• Publisher: Career Pr Inc
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564147045
• ISBN 13: 9781564147042
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

For more than two decades, Dr. John Hoover has written books on leader, creativity, and organizational performance, extolling the virtues of flattened organizations, collaborative leader, and shared responsibility. His clients welcomed him, praised him...yet (he felt) completely ignored his advice! This book contains the confession of a recovering "I-Boss" (Idiot Boss). After decades of writing and consulting, Dr. John finally realized that the vast majority of people he kept trying to "energize," "motivate," and "enlighten" were, well, idiots. Also he was an idiot for trying to change them. Instead, he has decided to enlighten you, who actually have to continue working for difficult and demanding bosses. You cannot change them. You cannot challenge them. Yet, you can survive them, even thrive under them, if you learn how to deal with them using this book. It offers hope for the spirit and strategy for the mind to help you deal with your work place situation.

Review

"Anyone who has to work should read How to Work for an Idiot."
--USA Today

"There is no question that How to Work for an Idiot is a subversive book. People will pick it up expecting a tasty blend of commiseration and advice. They will put it down thinking, to paraphrase the famous line from the cartoon character Pogo, 'We have met the idiot, and he is us.' "

--The New York Times

"Dr. Hoover recommends admitting that you are 'powerless' over the jerks in your life. Otherwise, 'harboring all that resentment is like drinking a cup of poison and waiting for the jerk to die.' "
--The Wall Street Journal

"How to Work for an Idiot contains a lot of humor, with plenty of good information as well.
--Campbell Brown, Weekend Today

"Dr. John's How to Work for an Idiot is very funny stuff, with some stinging jabs in there."
--Neil Cavuto, Fox News

..".an irreverent and realistic look at what people must deal with every day at work."
--CNNfn

"As amusing as his vignettes may be, the proffered advice is pretty sound and includes solid steps for coping and surviving a daily dose of determined and authoritative stupidity without committing any capital crimes."
--The Miami Herald