The comtemporary workplace is filled with traps but none more dangerous than those we set for ourselves. With compelling precision this book shows how even the most effective among us can undermine our careers by falling into our own private traps. ...provides specific advice for users interested in business advice and enhancement...packed with practical applications to work. -- Midwest Book Review, May 2000 Sandler and Gray offer sage advice on how to reassess what is expected of us in the workplace and how to successfully engage with organizational change and corporate pressures. -- Midwest Book Review, September 1999 The authors recognize that changing an attitude in the face of injustice is not easy. Breaking free of denial takes work. But their message is clear and compelling: people have no choice. Winning at Work is a valuable reference for any manager or a manager's employees who feel angry, bitter, or bewildered about the new unpredictable workplace. -- Soundview Executive Book Summaries, July 1999 Winners don't whine and whiners don't win. And, as everyone know, whiners outnumber the winners in the workplace. The question employers ask is: "How do we convert some of those whiners into winners?" The easiest way may be to give all the company's workers a copy of Winning at Work. The reason for making the book a gift is because whiners usually don't buy self-improvement books, but if they are given the book, they just may read it and apply its lessons. As for the company's winners, they will appreciate the gesture, read the book and learn from it. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 22, 1999 Winning at Work is a main selection of the Doubleday Executive Program book club. "Two experts on work, workers, and organizations have teamed up to write a creative and insightful guide to success in the modern workplace. Original, perceptive, and wise. Don't leave home (for work) without it."--Paul A. Kurzman, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, World of Work Programs, Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York. "Destined to become one of the most important books of our time about the workplace. This book should be must reading for everyone, from entry-level workers to senior management."--Daniel Lanier, Jr., Employee Assistance Program Consultant, E.I. DuPont Company. "Readers will see themselves in these pages and will be drawn to the practical strategies for personal mastery in times of workplace change."--Sandra Turner, Director, Assistance Program, Ernst & Young LLP; former President, Employee Assistance Professionals Association. If what it takes to be a winner in today's business environment seems just out of reach and you don't know why, this book can help. The new workplace is fraught with traps that can ensnare you along your path to success. Most dismaying are traps you may unwittingly set for yourself--by taking things too personally, by concluding that someone's out to get you, by taking on too much responsibility, and so on. If you find yourself perplexed because your tried-and-true success strategies aren't working anymore, or because the skills you perfected and the place you created for yourself are no longer valued, then this book is for you. Describing numerous personal traps that can foil all of us at one time or another, employee assistance professionals Mel Sandler and Muriel Gray show you how to reassess what is expected of you and what you need to do to get there--guiding the way through major organizational change and workplace pressures. With a self-test for identifying ! your traps and a host of trap-breaking exercises and creative solutions for escape, Winning at Work offers powerful strategies for those who find that work just isn't what it used to be--and that what used to work at work simply doesn't anymore. Mel Sandler, MSW, is president of WorkCoach, a firm dedicated to helping people overcome their personal traps at work. He has over twenty-five years of experience as a counselor and consultant for numerous corporations. He is a psychotherapist and an executive and career coach specializing in job stress and organizational change. He presents seminars in these areas and is coauthor of Surviving the Crisis at Work. Muriel Gray, Ph.D., is professor of social work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a director of EAP Healthcare Institute. She has over twenty-five years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies as a workplace consultant, employee assistance counselor, and executive coach. She presents workshops and seminars on career effectiveness and is coauthor of a best-selling series on employee assistance programming.