"If I'd had a copy of this book when I started therapy, I might have saved myself a lot of time and money. Bernstein provides a field guide to the various types of Emotional Vampires and advises readers how to protect themselves from being victims of these predatory personalities." - Diane White, "The Boston Globe". Emotional Vampires: They're out ...
Dinosaurs still walk the earth - only now they forage inside the hallways of corporate America. They include the impulsive boss, the manipulative colleague - and yourself. One minute they're acting like humans - the next they're little better than reptiles: aggressive, complaining, and blaming. In short, provocative chapters, the book explains why ...
This manual is designed for anyone who lives with, works with, or deals with emotionally explosive people. The personalities described as "Walking Time Bombs" react to stress with emotional explosions into anger, sadness or fear. Albert J. Bernstein examines how to cope with these people, offering strategies for dealing with all types of emotional ...
Going beyond the psychology of office politics to focus on people's internal barriers to positive personal change, this study is based on Dr Bernstein's years of experience both as practising psychotherapist and management consultant. It concentrates on the psychological traps and the inflexible, self-destructive belief systems that impair ...
This humorous analysis of personal behaviour in the workplace explores such problems as colleagues' irrationality or lack of basic communication skills, power plays, corporate psychological wars, office rebels and yes-men. It demonstrates how to triumph above minor or major irritations.
Using three basic personality types--Rebels, Believers, and Competitors--the authors identify problems that wreak havoc on interpersonal relations at work. Listeners will learn new rules and new thinking designed to make office life civil and productive.
This title offers the ultimate office survival guide - from the bestselling psychologist who warned us about Emotional Vampires and Dinosaur Brains. Leave it to the brilliant Dr. Bernstein to show readers how to stay sane while appropriately dealing with the 101 most common workplace issues. In this fun, practical guide, he reveals: how to work ...
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