Ask a Manager
How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses and Other Tricky Situations at Work
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Publisher Description
'I'm a HUGE fan of Alison Green's "Ask a Manager" column. This book is even better' Robert Sutton, author of The No A*****e Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide
'Ask A Manager is the book I wish I'd had in my desk drawer when I was starting out (or even, let's be honest, fifteen years in)' - Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
A witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations
Ten years as a workplace advice columnist has taught Alison Green that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they don't know what to say. Thankfully, Alison does. In this incredibly helpful book, she takes on the tough discussions you may need to have during your career.
You'll learn what to say when:
· colleagues push their work on you - then take credit for it
· you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email and hit 'reply all'
· you're being micromanaged - or not being managed at all
· your boss seems unhappy with your work
· you got too drunk at the Christmas party
With sharp, sage advice and candid letters from real-life readers, Ask a Manager will help you successfully navigate the stormy seas of office life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Advice columnist Green delivers a strained guide to navigating difficult workplace situations. Most often, her answers to readers' questions some original to this book and others previously published on her website, also titled Ask a Manager consist of a variation on the theme of "speak up and be direct," and, indeed, the book's utility lies in the scripts provided. Readers fumbling for what to say will be grateful for the precise wording to dig themselves out of a tricky conversation. Whether handling having cried in front of the boss, dealing with a coworker who makes pointed comments about eating habits, or talking to an assistant who is habitually late, the answers are all here. But Green's approach is unfortunately limiting: rather than offer general, adaptable strategies for resolving workplace issues, she focuses on highly specific and immediate problems. Any given reader is only going to have a handful of these at most, so it's hard to see whom the audience consists of. Green's fans will enjoy reading this, but floundering employees would be better served elsewhere.
