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Product reviews for Is Your Boss Mad?
Bdanews, the news magazine of the British Dental Association Vol 21 No 10
Given that many general dental practitioners will be bosses themselves, this 200-page paperback may be useful in giving readers an insight into the shortcomings of the manager from the perspective of the employee.
Is your boss mad? The definitive guide to coping with your boss, to give it its full title, is designed to help employees deal with difficult employers or, more accurately, the difficult situations that arise when dealing with employers, and this surely works both ways.
The preface says: “This book is not aimed at work-shy, soap-dodging, unambitious couch potatoes”. The author continues: “It is a plain guide for coping in the face of madness - from others, and from your own madness if things are getting too much” and it sets out to provide coping strategies.
However, these strategies depend upon certain factors, which include turning up for work on time, dressed appropriately; and the employee being qualified for the job. The author describes different types of so-called “mad” bosses. Interestingly, these boss types really exist but are often a composite of the “pure” types outlined here. While emphasising that bosses are also human beings the author goes on to explain: “This is not a book about the particular personalities of some bosses, but a guide that will help you recognise generalities and deeper patterns, and how personal pressures, fears and drivers influence the -˜mad' behaviour of bosses.”
Perhaps the emphasis on the “mad boss” in the title is selling this book short because, in truth, this book is about communication and conflict issues within the workplace and these affect everyone - employer and employee alike.
Is your boss mad? The definitive guide to coping with your boss, to give it its full title, is designed to help employees deal with difficult employers or, more accurately, the difficult situations that arise when dealing with employers, and this surely works both ways.
The preface says: “This book is not aimed at work-shy, soap-dodging, unambitious couch potatoes”. The author continues: “It is a plain guide for coping in the face of madness - from others, and from your own madness if things are getting too much” and it sets out to provide coping strategies.
However, these strategies depend upon certain factors, which include turning up for work on time, dressed appropriately; and the employee being qualified for the job. The author describes different types of so-called “mad” bosses. Interestingly, these boss types really exist but are often a composite of the “pure” types outlined here. While emphasising that bosses are also human beings the author goes on to explain: “This is not a book about the particular personalities of some bosses, but a guide that will help you recognise generalities and deeper patterns, and how personal pressures, fears and drivers influence the -˜mad' behaviour of bosses.”
Perhaps the emphasis on the “mad boss” in the title is selling this book short because, in truth, this book is about communication and conflict issues within the workplace and these affect everyone - employer and employee alike.
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13/11/2008 00:00
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