Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work

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Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work
by Katherine Crowley, Kathi Elster
from Business Plus

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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• "You is Killing Me"
  Hard cover book arrived in very good shape...like new and very quickly.
  Since the title of the book is "Working with you is killing me" the very 'quick' arrival may have saved a life :)

• Good strategies, mind the implementation
  
  What a great title for a book! And for the most part, the book lives up to its title. Crowley and Elster set out to help the reader "unhook" from emotional pitfalls in the office and show how to manage difficult personalities. They do both. to an extent.
  I really liked the introduction where we were invited to take a short quiz to discover our most challenging workplace situations. There were only 4 or 5 short questions and a suggestion as to which chapter we should go to depending on the... more info

• A must read
  This book delivers.
  In my experience, 99% of the books on professional relationships out there fall into either of two categories:
  Most of them refuse to address - some even to accept - that a few people you encounter in the corporate world have pathological dysfunctions. These books dedicate all of their content to treat your inability to cope with differences between people's personalities and yours. "Change the way you react to other people and all your problems will vanish" is the axiom behind... more info

• More than the title says
  Kathi and Katherine bring a great one-two punch to this book and can help you from getting knocked out at work. Katherine's background as a psychotherapist can help you to see how people are pushing your buttons.
  There is some great advice in here on how to detach yourself a little bit from what can be debilitating frustration. It may appear pretty simple, for example, the admonition to take 3 long deep breaths, but try it, it works. Beyond this threshold of cooling yourself down, the self analysis and... more info

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