Why Work Is Weird - An Antidote to the Frustrations of Corporate Life

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Employees who find work frustrating and oftentimes downright weird will enjoy this book that takes a serious but humorous look at the issues that make people unhappy and provides insight into what motivates workplace behavior. Loss of identity, individuality, and integrity at work; work-life imbalance; and the impact of power and politics in organizations are just some of the topics explored. Utilizing a character called the Work Doctor, these issues are examined and explained in a series of cases modeled around a patient-doctor dialogue. The patients' diseases include being a workplace chameleon, a jargon junkie, a repentant workaholic, and an addictive competitor..

by: Jerry Connor, Lee Sears

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781904879053
ISBN: 1904879055
Label: Cyan Communications
Manufacturer: Cyan Communications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 01, 2005
Publisher: Cyan Communications
Sales Rank: 2019523
Studio: Cyan Communications

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Employees who find work frustrating and oftentimes downright weird will enjoy this book. which takes a serious but humorous look at the issues that make people unhappy and provides insight into what motivates workplace behavior. Loss of identity, individuality, and integrity at work; work–life imbalance; and the impact of power and politics in organizations are just some of the topics explored. Utilizing a character called the "Work Doctor," these issues are examined and explained in a series of cases modeled around a patient–doctor dialogue. The patients' "diseases" include being a workplace chameleon, a jargon junkie, a repentant workaholic, and an addictive competitor.

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- So good you'll read it twice ....
Reading "Why work is weird" is like having a wonderfully wise and highly practical friend alongside you, as you talk through common issues that arise in the workplace, and more broadly, in life in general.

You feel as if you are sitting alongside the 'patient' who is explaining to the 'WorkDoctor' what's wrong. The WorkDoctor listens, carefully diagnoses the 'problem', explains the root cause of it, and provides a coherent framework for the solution.

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