This book provides you with savvy, practical advice for coping with managers and supervisors who are mean, incompetent, unethical, and worse. Being saddled with a terrible supervisor can turn even the best job into a nightmare. Unfortunately, not every boss is the great symbol of managerial perfection one would hope for. In fact, more people than not consider themselves stuck with a "bad boss." But short of remaining miserable or quitting a job, what can be done about it? A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses includes powerful strategies for not only working with -- but thriving under -- such bad boss types as: The Great Betrayers -- how to defend yourself against a corporate backstabber - The Know-Nothing Bosses -- what to do when a boss is clueless - The Bad Communicators -- how to respond when a boss is consistently unclear Whether a boss is high-strung, incompetent, or a power-mad tyrant, A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses has the solution. ""Packed with hands-on advice to keep frustrated employees from shrieking and running naked towards a cliff, and living to achieve professional success. Good tips!" ----Joyce Lain Kennedy, nationally syndicated columnist ""Consider this to be the guide of all guides to dealing with bad bosses; it's both an easy book to read, and one that is very thorough....If you are having trouble dealing with your boss, this book will be well worth its price in helping you find solutions." --Houston Chronicle ""Consider this to be the guide of all guides to dealing with bad bosses; it’s both an easy book to read, and one that is very thorough….If you are having trouble dealing with your boss, this book will be well worth its price in helping you find solutions." --Houston Chronicle ""Packed with hands-on advice to keep frustrated employees from shrieking and running naked towards a cliff, and living to achieve professional success. Good tips!" ----Joyce Lain Kennedy, nationally syndicated columnist ""Consider this to be the guide of all guides to dealing with bad bosses; it's both an easy book to read, and one that is very thorough....If you are having trouble dealing with your boss, this book will be well worth its price in helping you find solutions." --Houston Chronicle ""Packed with hands-on advice to keep frustrated employees from shrieking and running naked towards a cliff, and living to achieve professional success. Good tips!" ----Joyce Lain Kennedy, nationally syndicated columnist "Joyce Lain Kennedy, nationally syndicated columnist: ""Packed with hands-on advice to keep frustrated employees from shrieking and running naked towards a cliff, and living to achieve professional success. Good tips!"" Houston Chronicle: ""Consider this to be the guide of all guides to dealing with bad bosses; it's both an easy book to read, and one that is very thorough....If you are having trouble dealing with your boss, this book will be well worth its price in helping you find solutions.""" "Gini Graham Scott, Ph. D. is the founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research. She is the author of more than 40 books, including A Survival Guide for Working with Humans. She has written the syndicated ""Work it Right!"" column for The Oakland Tribune and other newspapers. She lives in Oakland, California." Gini Graham Scott is the founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research. Used Book in Good Condition