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Get Out of Your Own Way at Work...And Help Others Do the Same: Conquer Self-Defeating Behavior on the Job: Mark Goulston: Books. This follow-up to 1996's Get Out of Your Own Way diagnoses 40 business situations in which workers exhibit symptoms of self-defeating behavior, from Not Being Able to Take No for an Answer and Being Competent but Out of Touch to Not Delegating and Assuming Others Understand You. Goulston's focus, however, is not on workplace effectiveness but on earning self-esteem-and its twin sister, success. He devotes a chapter to each workplace issue: first, highlighting a case study that refers to a client from his consulting practice or, tangentially, to one of his hospital patients and, then, explaining how to remedy the behavior. In addition, each chapter is topped off with an aphoristic Usable Insight and a to-do list of Action Steps. People are inclined to commit hari-kari at work, Goulston says, because of fearful aggression and fearful avoidance, two traits that he traces back to humans' early-neural, unthinking, animal nature. While his insights are pedestrian-his advice can be boiled down to be more self-aware-the structure of the book makes it easy to cherry pick chapters that may apply to you.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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