To All of You Who Are a Pain-In-The-Ass

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER

Title: The PITA Principle

Competencies: self-development, conflict management, oral communications, stress tolerance, self-control

Who benefits: the whole damn workplace

Consultant Usage: anonymous gift to those who need it

What’s it about? I am recommending this book and I have not read it nor has it yet been published (August, 2008).  The only question remaining in my mind is how many copies to buy.  🙂

Where was this book when I was working inside organizations? 

Could managers just give this book to employees in lieu of performance evaluations?

Could employees give this book to managers in lieu of 360 Feedback?

Is this finally the answer to Rodney King’s plea “Can’t we all get along?” 

This book is for anyone who has ever had to work with a flaky, grumpy, lazy, defensive or cynical co-worker.

This book is for anyone who is a flaky, grumpy, lazy, defensive or cynical co-worker.

This book is especially for those who deflect/deny feedback, push unwanted work onto others, gossip and/or backstab.

In short, it is for all you Pain-In-The-Ass (PITA) people out there.

In a pre-publication interview one of the authors summarized the book by saying “Everyone works with, or has worked with, a negative, mean-spirited, or uncooperative co-worker, but there’s also the soggy, needy, whiney ones….

We all have a little of that in ourselves, and it’s important to recognize when we’re in situations or with certain people who bring that out of us….

(N)o one is ‘Pita Proof,’ and some of your subtle tendencies might be wearing thin on someone else.”  The book does, after all, come with a self-evaluation!

The book does hold out hope.  It suggests that with a little self-awareness and some self-development we can move from being a PITA to being a PITA…

From a Pain-In-The-er–Butt to Professionals-Increasing-Their-Awareness.

Never too early to do your holiday shopping!!!   

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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.