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This is a powerful, practical guide. Written in an easy-to-read style, it offers invaluable help in recognizing, controlling, and living with job stress. Each of its 19 chapters includes vignettes of people with specific symptoms of job stress. And since stress on the job may intensify the progression of other diseases or conditions, Dr. Arden explores the interaction between job stress and medical problems including diabetes, thyroid conditions, Meniere's Disease, and many more. Throughout the book, helpful charts and lists illustrate and sum up critical information about the best ways to adapt to job stress. A chapter on medication describes the common effects and the side effects, and gives the typical dosages for a variety of drugs. The chapter on nutrition includes the major amino acids found in various foods and their effects on mood and cognition. This is the book that will help you cope with stress in the workplace and minimize its negative effects. ... Read more

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A Practical Guide to Stress Relief
This book reviews all the major issues related to job stress and gives very practical, concrete ways to cope. Anyone who experiences job stress could benefit from the knowledge and advise contained in these pages. I highly recommend it!

Job Stress -
I have always felt a lot of stress in my job and could never feel that I was very calm at work. Dr. Arden provides numerous tips on how to cope beginning with yourself and then your job environment to help alleviate stress. I have used some of his tips and have now felt more relaxed at work.

Helpful Strategies
This straightforward book helps readers understand the overwhelming feelings associated with anxiety and the working environment. It has more helpful coping strategies than most books of its kind on the market. The book contains a wide range of topics: causes of anxiety, coping with attacks, nutrition, psychological approaches, relaxation, holistic and pharmaceutical treatments. The short chapters make it agreeable to busy schedules. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to make a positive change in his or her life.

Readable and Helpful
This book helped me learn to deal with the stress of multi-tasking. As a teacher I have to deal with parents, administrators, as well as students without being overwhelmed This book gave great hints about how to cope with it all. ... Read more

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William White reveals the debilitating consequences of business-as-usual in today's workplaces, along with bold and innovative strategies to restore the health and vitality of organizations and employees. This book is both an operations guide for sustaining organizational health, and a personal survival manual for those in destructive work environments. ... Read more

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The title of the book could have been: Read this if you....
Want to know why you are unhappy at work. OBTW this is Richard writing this...I am a Family Physician and I understand family systems. The foundation of the work compares organizational dysfunction to family dysfunction. It is a rational and easy to read book. It helped me understand the dynamics of my workplace and realize I needed to leave my job! Don't get me wrong....this is not the advise of the author. Once understanding the workplace is covered there are survival tips. For me I came to the conclusion there is little chance of recovery for the organization I worked with. A must read book for managers, owners and employees who want to grow and become healthier. ... Read more

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The complete blueprint for making the transition to the most exciting new growth area in psychotherapy today-corporate therapy

"For any psychologist and consultant seeking to apply his or her skills to the great challenges of the corporation, this book is invaluable. Lucidly written, concrete, specific, and practical."—Nathaniel Branden, PhD Psychologist, Management Consultant and author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

"One of the few books that looks at organizational change through the prism of personal change. Transformation, that overused word, is given new meaning in this book as the integration between personal growth and deep cultural change."—Dr. Warren Bennis Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at USC and author of Creative Collaboration

"The job of a therapist is to create a context for change. One immensely important and often overlooked arena to help people in this era is to transform large corporate systems. Iris Martin draws a beautifully detailed map from the therapist's door into the corporate terrain. Sometimes poetic and always rich in examples, she helps readers shape their talents to transform corporations. Reading this book will greatly expand a sense of potential and provide specific guidelines for the journey."—Stephen and Carol Lankton Corporate consultants and authors of The Answer Within; Tales of Enchantment; Enchantment and Intervention in Family Therapy; and Practical Magic

From Couch to Corporation

The business world is experiencing the shock of rapid, unprecedented, all-encompassing change. It is a time of new paradigms and roles, and the accompanying emotional and psychological upheaval. Increasingly, corporations are finding that conventional change management consultants are incapable of dealing constructively with the larger psychological issues that underpin successful change and ultimately impact the bottom line. As a consequence, more and more business executives are coming to rely upon the services of consultant psychotherapists. Trained both in systemic and individual interventions, sensitive to developmental transitions, and skillful in maneuvering the system/psyche dynamic, the well-trained therapist is ideally suited to help organizations successfully maneuver through rapid corporate change.

But the transition from couch to corporation can be a harrowing one; complete with unforeseen pitfalls, unfamiliar rituals, and different values and priorities than private practice or traditional consulting. From Couch to Corporation is designed to help therapists and nonclinically trained change consultants make the transition comfortably and successfully into this new role. It provides psychotherapists with a complete blueprint for becoming successful corporate therapists.

Authored by the founder of one of North America's most prestigious psychologically based international consultancies to the Fortune 500, this book uses case studies and extensive real-world examples to illustrate what it takes to succeed in the corporate environment today.

From Couch to Corporation helps you expand your professional skills and take advantage of lucrative opportunities now available in the field of organizational consulting. As corporate executives recognize the impact of the pressures of the 1990s (downsizing, restructuring, and merging), they are turning with increasing frequency to psychologically skilled professionals for support and guidance. This book will arm you with the insights you need to enter this rapidly growing consultant specialty. ... Read more

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Idea is good, so why do I feel uncomfortable?
I read this book a while ago, after seeing an full-page ad in the Family Therapy Networker. I was favorably enough impressed with the book to call Iris Martin to inquire about her seminars, and spoke with her directly. I was sent flyers (which is good) in which there were testimonials. So I called some people listed, to find out how "competent" the seminars were. I spoke with three people (I don't have names), all of whom had taken the year long seminars, none of whom would recommend her. I decided to skip the workshops.
So, the book is OK as a coaching manual. It's a good introduction to coaching--probably as much as any book can be. Just don't expect the book to replace appropriate training, or to serve as a training manual.

An extraordinary book!
Best book i've ever read detailing how psychology has transformed corporations across the globe. I loved the case studies of the crazy CEOs the best! It is all the rave of London.

More Resources
Ms. Martin seems to be knowledgeable on the subject & takes many oportunities to sing her own praises. I wish she would've spent more time pointing reader into the direction of helpful resources, people, references, etc. I finished the text feeling I had lots of good ideas, but no where to go for further support and information. Finally, compared to other similar books, the purchase price of the book is extremely high. (Maybe she needs to help pay for all those houses she owns :-) )

More "real time" perspective needed.
Martin's book provides an entry level overview of the complexities required to make a transition from conventional therapy to the more "bottom line" world of business. Martin illustrates the application of traditional therapy based skills but provides only a cursory view of real-time business issues - particularly as those issues apply to firms of more moderate size. There are also several instances in which Ms. Martin utilizes scenarios in which there appears to be clear "client/therapist - consultant/therapist" conflicts. Yet, she offers no hint of how these issues are addressed or resolved.

Martin's book is enjoyable introductory reading that needs to provide more substance if it is to have significant impact.

Job Retraining for Therapists
Martin presents an interesting outline of how to take psychological therapy skills into the corporate environment. If you're a therapist considering taking on corporate clients for either mentoring or marketing work, this book is a must. Note, Martin assumes psychotherapy expertise. Her focus is on how to transfer it. She doesn't cover what techniques are useful in helping corportions, except incidentally. ... Read more

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With the prominence of the term "stressed out" in the world of work, it is hard to think of Stress in positive terms.But Dru Scott argues that it can also be the source of motivation because stress demands attention and a response--it doesn't wait.She believes that the heart of the matter is that our belief systems control our choices and the way we perceive and react to things.The tool called Self-Talk is the means she uses to work on changing beliefs.This new edition introduces new research and findings and presents many new examples and case histories and establishes a great new basis for self-improvement. ... Read more

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In Feng Shui: The Book of Cures, expert Nancilee Wydra offers 150 easy, inexpensive solutions for making the home or workplace an uplifting, life-affirming space. This unique book details the incredible impact spaces have on people and then shows how to adjust factors such as lighting, furniture, and objects for a happier, healthier environment.

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A classic!
Nanci Lee Wydra's sociology/urban planning background lend a definite "feet planted on terra firma" approach to what is often presented as a rather out-of-reach, "woo-woo" topic. A regular speaker at American Institute of Architects (AIA) conventions, Wydra lends an intriguing contemporary, approachable, American (yet firmly grounded in Chinese tradition) sensibility to this fascinating ancient Chinese art. Also well worth reading are her follow-up books, Feng Shui in the Garden and Feng Shui in the Office.

This book does not cover most important aspects
and I was disappointed after reading this. I wish it would have discussed more common problems that US residents face in their homes and apartments. Could have been written with more diagrams and illustrations.

Splendid, simple to use, logical Feng Shui guide that works!
As an American who spends lots of time in Asia, I was thrilled to find a book like this to recommend to my friends. Nancilee Wydra obviously studied Feng Shui's many aspects. She wrote a guide that is easy to use and logical in its approach to this age-old oriental discipline. The author obviously cares about the importance of both our home and business environments. By following her teachings, I really feel that my surroundings have indeed made my life more successful, serene and comfortable.

Easy to follow advice for novices in feng shui.
Simple and cost-effective solutions for poor feng shui in homes and offices. Easy to follow, the book is good for those with little knowledge of feng shui. The reader can grasp an immediate (elementary) understanding of feng shui, allowing the reader to begin using this wonderful philosophy right away to help make positive changes in his/her personal environment.

Briefly gives the reader brief outlines
This book is so simple anyone could understand it. But for a reader really wanting to understand the ancient philosophy behind Feng Shiu it leaves you sadly lacking, as does Karen Kingston's book Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui. The most comprehensive reading on this subject actually can be found in Nancy SantoPietro's book Feng Shui: Harmony by Design. I recommend this last book mentioned to anyone, beginner or advanced alike. None of the others even come close to its understanding of the subject matter and explaining hows and whys in the correct application of this ancient art. ... Read more

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Theories of Organizational Stress.
good for different level of management in their organisation to have effective and efficiency way to manage their team to meet the task ... Read more

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correction
This is not a review. I am the main author of OVERCOMING ANXIETY AT WORK, but only my wife Jane, who is the secondary author, is listed.

Please make a correction and list my name first.

(Your listing for our other book, MOTIVATION AT WORK, is correct--Jane is the main author of that work, and I am the secondary author.)

Vincent Miskell ... Read more

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Get your body in shape while you keep your career in gear! Maintaining fitness on the job will help you work more productively, deal better with physical and emotional stress, and reduce sickness. This book shows you how to find the time at work to keep in shape. Includes exercises that can be done at your desk in business attire, relaxation techniques to fight stress, nutrition tips, and scheduling plans to get you out of the workplace and to a workout with the least amount of disruption.

The Crunch(r) Fitness Series: Throughout the country Crunch(r) is synonymous with the ultimate in fitness and exercise. From New York to LA, Crunch Fitness Centers have helped hundreds of thousands of Americans get in shape and stay in shape. With their unique lifestyle approach to fitness and their philosophy of "no judgments" on your lifestyle, Crunch is the choice of men and women, and who want to exercise their right to fitness. Crunch and Hatherleigh are proud to announce the next three books in the Crunch Fitness Series. Each book in the series is specifically designed to meet the lifestyle demands of today's Americans - the harried business executive who spends her weekends on the road, the father of the bride who has to look good in a tux, the soccer mom who just doesn't have time for the gym, young people, old people, couch potatoes and bodybuilders. Everyone will benefit from the Crunch expertise and their team of fitness specialists. ... Read more

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Are you feeling pressured by the daily grind? Are tension and worry getting you down? Whether you're a trainee or a CEO, a bored part-timer or a burned-out workaholic, Paul Wilson, author of the international bestseller The Little Book of Calm, offers simple, straightforward techniques for overcoming stress on the job and making your life a more tranquil place. You'll get through the workday feeling relaxed, positive, and fulfilled. So take a deep breath and discover:

* How to use visualization and affirmation to overcome anxiety
* How to control time, depressurize deadlines, and end procrastination
* The best ways to handle superiors and co-workers
* How to remain calm in a crisis--and who you can turn to for help
* Calm-inducing programs for leaders, managers, and junior executives
* The six steps to lasting calm

Wilson also includes deep-breathing routines and simple exercises for instant relief from tension, stress, and anxiety.The next time work-place anxiety rises and you need relief, New Woman puts it best--"plenty of new-age gurus claim they have the answers to a stress-free life...but when the word comes from a 45-year-old businessman who hustles each day in the tension-packed business world, the advice somehow has more credibility." ... Read more

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Do you think you have so many things to do but do not have enough time? Do you feel stressful in meeting lots of deadlines? Do the changes make you feel anxious? If yes, you must read this book ¡§Calm at Work¡¨ since these are parts of stress, and this book can help you to deal with these stress. This book offers some simple and straightforward techniques for overcoming stress on the job and keeping people relax and calm at work.

The author stated what stress is first, and he mentioned the seven steps to be calm, including 1) take this first step, 2) life-changing choices, 3) employers to choose from, 4) sanity-saving understandings, 5) life-enriching pieces of advice, 6) areas where you can make a difference, and 7) causes of stress in the workplace. The seven main causes of stress in workplace are time, control, self, social, change, physical and lifestyle habits. After mentioning the causes of stress, the author suggested a series of solutions for each cause. Therefore, when people know their causes of stress, they can read that solutions accordingly. For me, most of my stresses come from time and self since I always think that I do not have enough time to do my things. For time, the author suggested some solutions such as control time, depressurize deadlines and end procrastination. For self, the author suggested planning to be calm, a positive change, dealing with worries and drive control. These advices and solutions are practical and useful for me to reduce stress.

Apart from specific solutions for each cause, the author also mentioned some general suggestions for dealing any type of stress, including deep breath, use of subconscious, doing exercises, taking a rest, planning, thinking positively and to be more get involved and enthusiastic when doing something. These techniques are really useful for everyone to overcome the stress especially for those who are working.

After reading this book, I have tried some of the techniques for dealing the stress and they really help. Whenever I feel stressful, I would have a deep breath for calming down myself first, and I breathed deeply and slowly. Sometimes, I would also do some simple exercises for instant relief from stress. I have learned to write down my plan, I wrote down all of the works, prioritized them and end procrastination, so I could finish the work more efficiently and also make sure that the most important things are done. I have changed my attitude, I think more positively than before and be more optimistic and enthusiastic. This makes me live more happily and do things more efficiently with less stress. I would try to take a rest which is about 30 minutes in a day even it is a busy day, in the rest time, I would stop doing anything. I think most of these techniques are practical and can reduce my stress level and also make me to be more relaxed.

In facing this challenging and highly competitive world, I think everyone would be under stress, therefore, I strongly recommend this book to all people. After reading this book, you¡¦ll feel relaxed, positive and fulfilled. I believe that everyone can benefit from reading this book.

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¡§Calm at Work¡¨ is a book which suggests many useful ways for keeping calm and reducing stress. It mentioned seven main causes of stress in workplace, including time, control, self, social, change, physical and lifestyle habits, and the author advised a series of solutions for each cause of stress. In order to help the readers to find the solutions in a more efficient way, author used a special method. At the end of each section, an ¡§index card¡¨ would be inserted, which contains information that guides the readers to find out the solutions. As some of the solutions are useful for different causes of stress, this book organized in such a way is concise and precise.

Breathing calm is very important. The author used a lot of effort in explaining how to breathe in a right way. It is because the calm breathing method is useful in many other calm keeping solutions. Besides, author suggests readers to write down their plans and prioritize their working schedules. Those methods are very practical for busy people; it can help them to complete their work on schedule. Other solutions like tools of subconscious and some simple exercises are all very useful and easy to carry out in our daily life.

There are some parts in this book which impressed me most. Those include the causes and solutions of time and social. For time, as we cannot control the time to pass, the things that we can control are the things we need to do and the time we need to do the things. Therefore, we must have a good time management. Besides, author suggested the readers to take off their watches, so as to make them more relax. It is because people will refer to their watches frequently, and it increases their pressure. If we can work without that pressure, we would be more relaxed. On the other hand, for social, author suggested the readers to develop a new relationship with those trouble colleagues. If those colleagues are helpful and constructive to our plan, we can build up good relationship with them, for those who will obstruct our plan, we have to avoid frequent contact with them. But in my opinion, in the real life workplace, we are not able to control who are my work partners, therefore, this method would be good, but not very practical.

In short, this book gives me lots of ideas to relax under stressful environment. Although, the author emphasize on the pressure from workplace, most of the solutions are helpful and practical for everyone. The book reminds me procrastination will increase the pressure level, so a well planning for myself is important. Moreover, the attitude of me is also critical. It is because building up a positive attitude would make me become optimistic and I understand that a happy person can live with less stress.

This book is good to everyone, if you are under great pressure, and seeking ways for relax, ¡§Calm at work¡¨ would be a book suitable for you.

Get Calm Today ~c:)
I just wanted to write a quick review to let readers know that I recommend this book highly! At the end of 1999, I was working in a very stressful environment. Five people were working in a very small space manning an online retail store during holiday season! Yikes!

Withink two days of reading the book, I not only was able to cut my own stress down substantially, but some of the techniques I used (the positive contribution cup) changed the entire office environment for the better.

I cannot recommend this book enough, especially for people working in the highly stressful high tech field.

Read, enjoy and relax!

~c:)

it's working!
You have to read this book after having read the book on meditation of the same author. The combination of these two books really makes you relaxed at work. The content is very practical and easy applicable in real life. I have read many books on the subject of handling emotions and the techniques the author mentions are familiar. However he is able to add something extra what makes the technicques easier to use. His words are well chosen and full of clear images. It's a very good book in my opinion. ... Read more

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Workplace Bullying is the deliberate, repeated mistreatment of good employees by harassers who ignore all traditional boundaries of gender, race, age, and organizational rank. The authors, in this book and through the national nonprofit organization--Campaign Against Workplace Bullying--have introduced the term to working Americans.BullyProof Yourself At Work is the first American book and the first volume in The Work Doctor's Bullying series focused exclusively on the topic of workplace bullying.

About one-fourth of all employees are affected directly by a bully's tactics. BullyProof Yourself At Work! is written for individuals who face tyrants at work who threaten their sanity, careers, and relationships with co-workers and friends. The first steps teach how to recognize bullying when it is happening and how to stop being surprised by the fundamentally different way bullies and their Targets (the recipients) think, act and see the workplace. Eight chapters are devoted techniques that can prevent or stop the self-defeating cycle into which Targets regretfully fall.

Quotes from readers:

"It's like being set free from prison. God bless you and your work!"

"You've helped me to stand up to bullies for months. I'm teaching my son bullyproofing before he enters the workforce."

"Discovering the Campaign and reading your material is one of the best things to happen in my life."

"I'm so glad that you both exist! I know my battle has just begun and I willface many new challenges, but know that I have The Work Doctor on my side. I WILL SURVIVE!"

"You do not know how much I appreciate you help, advice, information and especially emotional support." ... Read more

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bullies (liars) are everywhere
Bullies get what they need personally because one of their major needs is to look good at the expense of others, especially in a
workplace that allows such behavior to multiply. Government organizations where executives prefer to isolate themselves from frontline workers are particularly vulnerable since the lies that bullies pass on to executives are accepted as de facto truth. Managing by walking around is unheard of in these places.

excellent theoretical foundation
This book provided the one thing I found missing in all the similar books I have read: a valid theoretical explanation of why bullying occurs -- the characteristics and dynamics of both the targets and the bullies. Essentially, bullies and targets (victims of bullies) come in all varieties, except that targets have one quality in common: they foster collaboration. Bullies, in turn, also have one trait in common: they are hierarchial. This leads to the inevitable crash when the bully percieves that the target is "giving away" the very things that the bully wishes to "sell". The driving force behind bulling is the need to control other people. The vulnerability of targets lies in their incomprehension of why anyone would want to control others when they could instead cooperate with them. These mental models are fundamentally incompatible. In addition, bullies are comfortable using aggression to gain control while cooperators are not. Bullies want to crush targets, targets want to "get along" with bullies. This really excellent book explains the basis for the mental models, the dynamics of the interaction between bullies and targets, and offers targets strategies for survival.

A Great Addition to any "Work Abuse " Toolkit
This book helped to "fill in the holes" for me. I am a manager who has witnessed innumerable incidents aptly described in this book. There are no "official" guidelines or information available from my employer for addressing this phenomenon...if it doesn't fall within the classical "legal" definition of harassment...many of my peers either ignore the behavior, engage in the behavior or collude with the "system" to perpetuate it. This book and another great book, "Work Abuse: How To Recognize and Survive It" by Judith Wyatt and Chauncey Hare have been invaluable aids in helping me to identify and implement actions that have strengthened my management skills, by encouraging change and authentic healing.

An engaging mix of compassion and fight
This is one of two excellent new books dedicated to the memory of Heinz Leymann, a Swedish psychologist who died in January 1999, after having spearheaded the greatest advance of the past twenty years in the study of work. The other book, also available from amazon, is entitled Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, by Noa Davenport, Ruth Distler Schwartz, and Gail Pursell Elliott. The books are alike in honoring Leymann's memory in the best possible way: by extending his research and presenting the results in a way that will be of enormous practical benefit to both employers and employees. Leymann's breakthrough was against the background of current preoccupations on sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, and the other officially recognized bases of unfair treatment in the workplace. Some argue now for expanding the list of shibboleths to include employees' criminal records and political beliefs as illegal grounds on which to exclude or punish them. Leymann managed to get beyond this current way of thinking, with its fixation on grounds of ill-treatment, and to focus instead on the fact of ill-treatment, whatever the apparent ground. The phenomenon he conceptualized and studied was the humiliation and destruction of an employee by the employer. He called this process mobbing or bullying: intense aggression against an individual by managers or co-workers, aimed at crushing the individual utterly and eliminating him or her from the group. Leymann's conceptualization, which Bullyproof powerfully brings home to American readers, shifts attention from real or imagined reasons for cruelty to cruelty itself. Quoting extensively from first-person accounts, the Namies show that bullying may occur not just because the target is of the wrong sex or race but because the target is talent, successful, or cooperative. They shift attention from some purported defect in the target to the bully's inordinate need to control and dominate--to the point of destroying one who will not submit. Harassment, as used in the subtitle of this book, need not have anything to do with sex. It means picking on or ganging up on somebody, little by little dragging that person down, often for no other reason than that the perpetrators get a kick out of it. Bullying inflicts huge costs on both the target and the organization. It represents a diversion of time and energy away from getting the job done to putting some worker down. It is the substitution of power-mongering and one-upmanship for efficient and productive work. Bullyproof is an engaging mix of compassion and fight. Far from being detached, ivory-tower researchers, the Namies are determined not just to understand the mini-holocausts taking place every day in American workplaces but to prevent them. The splendid cover illustration shows a bullied worker effectively wielding a shield against flames of destruction exhaled from the bully's mouth. This book is for anybody employed anywhere. Even if you yourself are not being bullied now, you probably know somebody who is, and who will thank you a thousand times for the loan of this helpful guide to resistance and mental health. There is practical advice, well grounded in research, on every page. This book is part of the authors' international Campaign against Workplace Bullying, a movement that deserves wide support.

A real contribution to everyone who works for a living.
This book accomplishes what many of us have tried to do for most of our working lives: articulate why work so often causes suffering and reduces productivity. Usually, we know someone is bothering us at work, but we have troublre articulating exactly what it is. This is especially so when the problem is the boss, and when we seem to feel that the boss has the right to bully us. In this book, bullies will recognize themselves and will learn for the first time what behaviors they should quit imposing on others. Targets and victims of bullies will find out what to do to protect themselves. Ruth and Gary Naimie have taken the giant and original first step of identifying this national problem, analyzing it, and telling us how to cope with and ultimately solve this hurtful and wasteful problem. ... Read more

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Managing Stress offers useful alternatives that help reduce stress, including how to let it flow into more productive responses. This guide offers tips for learning how to say no, and provides the author's tested way to respond to stress by using the CALM approach: C--Change the things you can; A--Accept the things you can't change; L--Let go; M--Manage your lifestyle. ... Read more

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Changing the workplace to help prevent stress is much more cost-effective in the long term than treating employees for the effects of stress. But to date, there has been little guidance for employers who wish to implement such programs. Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity gathers together examples of best practice in the workplace across a range of countries and organizations and identifies the factors that are crucial for a stress reduction program to work, both in terms of employee well-being and from a financial point of view. ... Read more

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"Provides compelling reasons for treating the American work force as a valuable resource . . . and for looking at occupational stress as a serious social problem."--New York Times Book Review ... Read more

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A classic
Healthy Work is a classic--though currently under-appreciated--work on organizations. It is a book of great breadth and richness that deserves more than one reading. Healthy Work is a "must read" for those concerned with creating healthy organizations. It describes the demand-control model, which has had a huge influence on research on work and health. The model was prompted by Karasek's concern about the consequences of demand-control imbalances in the workplace. Karasek and Theorell provide a vision of humane organizations in which employees can master challenges and experience personal growth. Healthy Work is not an easy read, but it is a "must read" for OD practitioners, OB professors, and those concerned with improving life in organizations. It challenges us to improve the "psychic prisons" in which many employees--unfortunately--spend much of their waking hours. ... Read more

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Lillian Too, author of the international bestseller The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui, shows you how to bring the magic of Feng Shui into your life at work with these handy tips for promoting recognition, fulfillment and success. ... Read more

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good way to look at your work spaces
i have used this to think through the offices my husband and i use, in our home offices and at our public offices at work.

good ideas are presented in a "bullet point" manner, i.e., skip over that page if it does not pertain to your situation.practical, cut to the chase, way to look at this area of your life.

Great Gift and Helpful Tips
I think this book makes a wonderful gift and it is also great for easy fixes, which actually DO work. This book is not intended for those who wish to study the subject in depth, but it is not trying to be that kind of a book. It is a little book of feng shui, and gives you pointers on how you can make sure your feng shui at work is protected... and gives you tips on how to enhance for good feng shui.

For those who want the subject in more depth, go for Lillian Too's Encyclopedia of Feng Shui or the Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui. These are her staples and are great reference manuals.

Good bathroom reading
This book fits easily into a shirt pocket and contains little snippets of feng shui advice.If you are very heavy into that sort of thing, it is probably too light a book for you.If you barely know what feng shui is ordon't buy into it, then the book's advice is still practical in that itgets you thinking about simple changes you can make at your workplace toenhance its decor.If you are like me and tend to have clutter all overyour desk, and your only wall decorations are a calendar you got for freeand a picture of your mom, then you probably you ought to check out thisbook. ... Read more

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Finally, the best practices from the Quality field have been united with the best practices from the Wellness field. Wellness programs are designed to create a healthier workforce. A healthier workforce will exhibit less absenteeism, lower injury rates, lower illness rates, and thus, lower health care costs. An activity this important obviously deserves our very best effort. We have applied the best practices from the world of Quality to a site Wellness program with amazing success and are now ready to share the practical aspects of this work with you. You will learn how to set your Wellness Program up for success; how to set goals using the Healthy People 2000 guidelines; how to organize your Wellness Program around the Wellness Councils of America recognition requirements; and how to use the ISO 9000 Quality Management Standards to manage your program. Finally we will provide with examples and tools to help you implement all of these practices in your own program. If you want to make your Wellness Program truly World-Class, this practical and easy to read book is just what you have been waiting for. ... Read more

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Career Success/Personal Stress begins from a refreshingly commonsense-but frequently overlooked-set of assumptions about stress: that stress is the rule nowadays, and is virtually wired-in to the majority of work environments; that the notion that stress can be eliminated from one's routine is unrealistic; that stress can actually be used to advantage if properly managed; and that a stress-sensitive lifestyle is learnable. Building on these four cornerstones, stress specialists Leatz and Stolar offer a treasury of fascinating findings and high-payoff prescriptions including: How to perform a personalized stress check; How to recognize common physiological stress patterns and interpret common physiological reactions to stress; How to understand and cope with 12 major job stressors (many of which have only surfaced in the past 3 years); How to know if stress is affecting your sexual performance and what can be done about it; How to evaluate the mutual effects of stress, diet, and exercise; How to spot and cope with a wide array of stress-impacted symptoms and illnesses-from backaches, panic attacks, and dermatitis to teeth-grinding, sleeping problems, and sexual dysfunction, plus many others; How to make lifestyle changes that render stress manageable for positive results. In addition, the authors introduce the intriguing new concept of a Type C personality, as distinguished from the stress-vulnerable Type A and stress-avoider Type B personalities. Statistically validated through their own research, the Type C construct illustrates how real-world people who are already functioning successfully in the new environment do it-and it provides a model for the most desirable qualities and behaviors for optimal stress management. ... Read more

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Excellent suggestions for reviewing all aspects of your life
Very good reference book. Pulls in information from many different disciplines on ways to overcome stress ... Read more

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Have you ever agonized over how to handle a bully in theworkplace--with pie-in-the-face retribution or a saintly smile?"The 100 people you'll meet on these pages," Muriel Solomonteases in her introduction to this hard-hitting and entertainingguidebook, "should be founding members of E.O.O.--EqualOpportunity Offenders. They show no bias. They are as obnoxious totheir bosses as they are to their bookkeepers." But the teasingsegues into practical advice for those seeking to do their work in--ifnot kind circumstances--at least unthreatening ones.

Designed as an at-a-glance reference tool, this 10-part guide describes10 kinds of culprits, from tyrants, bullies, and sadists to the pushyand presumptuous to connivers and camouflagers. Each type is firstdefined, allowing for a peek inside the heads of both victim andvictimizer and offering a helpful strategy for facilitating tactfuldialogues that serves as excellent advice for diffusing workplacetensions and hostilities.

You may recognize these types as thorns in your side or--worse--realthreats to your sense of well-being and work performance. Thisreference book packs a wallop, not only restoring your self-esteem butallowing you to create better relationships with the people at work whomake your life miserable. Working with Difficult People may notdisarm the despicable, but it will supply you with the ammunition youneed to put the control back in your camp. ... Read more

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Learn the art of Communicating.
Well, Well, I find this book 'terrific' to say the least.
The arrangement of text(especially 'capitals') is simply wonderful. I learnt more and educated myself in the process. It was more like reading a novel. I would highly recommend you to read this book, but keep it away from the sight of 'Co-workers/Boss(for your own good!). I wish I could have a video of this book, I mean it would definitely help. Words once uttered, cannot be taken back, so it is better to polish it so that it conveys the intended meaning and gets the appropriate results when dealing with not only 'Difficult people' but everybody.
After some time, you will enjoy working with 'Difficult people', because they are usually the ones who have talents that have been overlooked. Take heart.

Only an OK book
There is some useful information in the book. The book is divided into many different situations and types of people and this is useful. However many sections are very shallow and it seems that the sections that deal with the most difficult people tend to blame it on the recipient rather than the perpetrator. Also, there is a tendency to helplessness in the face of the worst offenders, i.e. there is nothing you can do. In reality this is seldom the case. But the desired actions may be dramatic and have far reaching consequences. It seems the book is written so as to offend none when some should be offended.

Read "Winning with Difficult People" instead
Try reading "Winning with Difficult people" instead of this book. This book did tell me about certain types of people and how to deal with them, but it didn't go into deal about why they are the way they are to others.

Good understanding for what motivates difficult people
I bought this book when it first came out over a decade ago. It's a classic (or should be). It covers the behavior in groups (e.g. "Pushy/Presumtious People", "Exploitive People") and further divides each group into how it is manifested in Bosses, Peers, and Suborbdinates. The author is very perceptive in describing the patterns, what insecurities drive people to behave that way, and methods for dealing with them. The advice is very practical and appropriate to the case. Sometimes it's on the order of "give them some attention to get a return", sometimes it's "define your boundaries" and sometimes it's "this is toxic, walk away." ... Read more