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Title: Working Wounded : Advice that Adds Insight to Injury by Bob Rosner, Bob Roser ISBN: 0-446-60866-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must read, must buy if you don't like your job
Comment: First Aid for the Working Wounded by T.S. Peric'
Most of us, at some point in our working career, labored within a crummy company, faced-off with a bullying boss or suffered the ignominy of a firing.
Most of us have shared workplace horror stories or listened sympathetically to someone who really took a battering.
Let's face it. Workplace dissatisfaction ranks high on the angst scale for the 90s and this is the audience to which nationally syndicated columnist Bob Rosner directs his book, Working Wounded: Advice that Adds Insight to Injury (Warner Books).
While bookshelves are littered by the bunches with titles on job hunting, job coping and job escaping, Rosner manages to whip out a bouquet that offers a few, fresh petals.
Too many job-help books sound like a dry managerial tract from some experimental work environment which exists only in the mind of the writer. Rosner's laboratory is real: true-life stories culled from calls for help he gathers through a weekly column and a Working Wounded website (workingwounded.com). Fortunately, Rosner manages to describe this with a sense of humorous outrage that makes for a good read.
Rosner's faces the task about changing a bull-headed boss' inflexibility to your way of thinking in "Hold the Garlic! I Want My Boss to Shape-Change". He goes on to note "His [the boss] name was Dick-but we called him 'Cold Shower' because that's what he gave to every new idea that came across his desk. After collecting more bullet holes than a stop sign on a country road, I finally decided to bring him an idea he couldn't shoot down-one of his own."
Rosner dispenses advice from the experts who are familiar with the workplace, covering basic issues such as "Poked From All Sides: How to Cope with Your Co-Workers" to gathering confidence in our burgeoning techno-state with "Stuck In The Web: How To Score Points with Technology".
Rosner offers advice in a lively, succinct fashion, sprinkling the book with timely tidbits abou!t working that leave you nodding in agreement or shaking your head in anger. First, there's "The Working Wounded Quotebook".
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde.
Second, you have the Working Wounded List.
"They Asked You What . . . Real Questions Asked During Real Job Interviews
A Wall Street bank asked women MBA graduates, 'Would you have an abortion to stay on the fast track?'
While discount department store asked interviewees, 'How long can you hold your urine?'"
Finally, my favorite: the e-mail received at Working Wounded.
1)"The Best Way to get a Promotion
"Be on time, learn your job, go the extra mile, and don't suck up to the boss.
2)"The Other Best Way to Get a Promotion
Two words: kiss butt!"
3)"Scrooge Lives. Last year at the Christmas party, the boss gave us all Christmas cards. We opened them up only to find pink slips inside. He said he thought the party atmosphere would take the edge off of being let go."
And if you ever tire of reading of reading about the workplace, as a diversion you can relax with drawings from The New Yorker cartoonist Robert Mankoff which are found throughout the book.
What Rosner never forgets in Working Wounded is that real people populate the workplace and that a deft combination of experience, inspiration, information and humor is the key to surviving a fresh wound and, if you recover, there just might be hope for you on the next job.
How good is this book? When my sister Millie (an erudite, eclectic reader with a varied work history and a cool disposition to self-help employment books) leafed through the Working Wounded, she had a single comment: "When you're done with this, could I take a look?" She also like the cartoons.
Regardless of the type of work you do, Working Wounded's message is about emotional protection on the job. Every smart police officer hits the streets with a bulletproof vest. That's how you should regard Working Wounded: Try it !on for size and it'll help you survive the bullets. - 30 -
Rating: 3
Summary: It's a Biography....
Comment: I read the book Working Wounded in a couple of days. It is actually a quick read and rather humorous at times. There is a lot of great reference material in there.
The author was really writing his own biography throughout most of the book. I am thrilled that he had such wonderful oportunities in the past and in his future.
This book is best just for the Bibliography. Unfortunately, it doesn't have one so you have to read it chapter by chapter to get the books that may be relevant to what you need additional information to.
Good Luck, Bob! To everyone else, buy a different book, see if someone will loan you theirs, go to the library. Save the dough, because I don't think you will find it as insightful as the title implies.
Rating: 1
Summary: Yuck.
Comment: The one word that comes to mind after reading this book is: Vapid. The cartoons are pretty good though.
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Title: The Boss's Survival Guide by Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow, Alan S. Levins ISBN: 0071362738 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Gray Matters : The Workplace Survival Guide by Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow, John Lavin ISBN: 0471455083 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0071401946 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work by Beverly L. Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans ISBN: 157675250X Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni ISBN: 0787960756 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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