Wait, I'm Working With Who?!?

This is the go-to guide on working with anyone in your office from the difficult or negative to the toxic and destructive whether they are your manager, a team member, or someone who’s just waiting out the clock. Chock-full of useful advice that will make your workday happier and more productive.

Who hasn’t had to deal with a jerk at work? Whether it’s a toxic team member who loves nothing more than to suck the life and excitement out of her colleagues, the difficult coworker who isn’t happy unless the office is filled with mayhem and drama, or a bad boss who causes his employees to constantly dream of telling him to “Take this job and shove it!”, we’ve all had to deal with people on the job we would rather not.

Wait, I’m Working with Who?!? is the essential guide to identifying and dealing with jerks at work, including bad bosses, troublemaking coworkers, lazy and time-sucking team members, and toxic people of all sorts. This book covers the negative impact that problematic coworkers have on the workplace lost productivity, high turnover, a company culture of ambivalence or defeat and catalogs 16 specific species. It then goes on to share detailed steps for dealing with these characters whether you’re an employee or a manager. The information and strategies in these chapters will be immediately actionable and profoundly helpful.

Based on proven approaches and the latest research and advice of workplace experts, Wait, I’m Working with Who?!? provides readers with concrete, unambiguous advice on how to deal with and neutralize the negative people in their work lives.

About the Author

Peter Economy is a best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 80 books to his credit (with more than 2 million copies sold), including Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller, Leading Through Uncertainty: How Umpqua Bank Emerged from the Great Recession Better and Stronger than Ever by Ray Davis, Managing For Dummies, Leadership Ensemble: Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless Orchestra, The Management Bible, and many more.

He writes columns on leadership and management for Inc.com (The Leadership Guy) and has also served as Associate Editor for Leader to Leader magazine - published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute in New York City - since 2001. Peter taught MGT 453: Creativity and Innovation as a lecturer at San Diego State University, is on the National Advisory Council of The Art of Science Learning, and is a founding member of the board of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes.

A graduate of Stanford University, Peter has worked closely with some of the nation's top business thinkers, including Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Peter Senge, David Whyte, Kellie McElhaney, Marshall Goldsmith, Jack Trout, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hirshberg, Peter Georgescu, Guy Kawasaki, William Taylor, Jim Kilts, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ken Blanchard, and many others.