How difficult are you? -- Stop, look, and listen -- Maximizing your power -- It's not (always) personal, it's (often) business -- Planning your strategy -- Working with difficult superiors -- Working with difficult subordinates -- Corporate culture and difficult people -- Mean and angry -- Suspicious -- Pessimists -- Cynics -- Shy and quiet -- How do I love me? -- Extreme competitiveness -- Overcontrolling -- It takes two to make a toady -- Lessons: handling all kinds of difficult people.
Summary
"Mastering the ability to handle difficult people and disruptive behaviors has always been a critical career skill. Working with Difficult People defines nine fundamental types of difficult people and gives readers a complete system for opening lines of communication, resolving differences, and avoiding office headaches." -- Provided by publisher.
