Emotional Vampires at Work : Dealing with Bosses and Coworkers Who Drain You Dry

Title: Emotional Vampires at Work : Dealing with Bosses and Coworkers Who Drain You Dry
Author: Albert J. Bernstein
ISBN: 1259098516 / 9781259098512
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 260
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2013
Availability: Out of Stock
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"We love so much about this book! A great complement to Dealing with People You Can't Stand, it goes beyond dealing with the merely difficult behavior to the truly pathological. Bernstein offers believable examples and useful descriptions. This is the book to recommend when the topic of truly horrible behavior comes up!" -- Dr. Rick Kirschner and Dr. Rick Brinkman, authors of the international bestseller Dealing with People You Can't Stand

"This book equips individuals with the tools to identify and defend against a wide array of emotional vampires at work. It offers well-developed tactics for navigating the most difficult people in any organization." -- Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster, bestselling authors of Working with You Is Killing Me and Mean Girls at Work

"It's amazing how one manipulative, territorial, or otherwise self-serving boss or employee can make the lives of everyone around miserable. In Emotional Vampires at Work, Albert Bernstein offers concrete, step-by-step guidance to manage life around these misfits. You'll learn to take care of your and your valued colleagues' needs, while contributing your best to your organization?with maturity and sanity." -- Nancy Ancowitz, author of Self-Promotion for Introverts

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Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : Emotional Vampires : Who Are They?
Chapter 2 : Maturity and Mental Health : Protect Yourself from Emotional Vampires By Thinking More Slowly Than They Do
Chapter 3 : Who Are You?
Chapter 4 : Antisocials
Chapter 5 : Antisocial Bullies and Substance Abusers
Chapter 6 : Con-Artists
Chapter 7 : Antisocial Cultures
Chapter 8 : Histrionics
Chapter 9 : The Magical World of Histrionic Hams
Chapter 10 : Passive-Aggressives
Chapter 11 : Histrionic Cultures
Chapter 12 : Narcissists
Chapter 13 : Narcissistic Legends in Their Own Minds
Chapter 14 : Narcissistic Superstars
Chapter 15 : Narcissistic Cultures
Chapter 16 : Obsessive-Compulsives
Chapter 17 : Obsessive-Compulsive Perfectionists and Puritans
Chapter 18 : Obsessive-Compulsive Cultures
Chapter 19 : Paranoids
Chapter 20 : Vampire Visionaries
Chapter 21 : Paranoid Cultures
Chapter 22 : Dangerously Dysfunctional Cultures : Fifteen Signs that an Organization Is Run by Vampires for Vampires

Epilogue
Index