"The management book for "people people"  ???"     OK, Manager.  A quick quiz.     Today:                          What quadrant were you in? (Or was it a box?  Or a cube?)  Did you sharpen the saw? (Or just your claws?)  'Street smarts' or 'book smarts'? Did you catch somebody doing something right?  Or red-handed?  Or, did you just catch a cold?   MBO or MBA?  Ept or inept? Are you a one minute manager, a megalomanager,  an apprentice, a last minute manager or so far out of control that you can't remember the last time you managed anything?     If reading about management practices tends to send you into a coma.... If you think that there should be an easier way.... If the only professional development time you can find is on the next episode of 'The Apprentice'.... If you think you've discovered why it's called 'the practice of management'...  If you're anxious to stop practicing and get on to the real thing....   Then you need to read "Managing the STAFF INFECTION:  The Workplace Antidote to What Ails You and Who Fails You"   This on-target, quick to read text presents real (sometimes too real) management issues and their equally real solutions for:   Any manager who feels alone and hopeless when dealing with 'idiots and their idiosyncrasies' You - and millions of other managers who have an impossible job - but are doing the best you can with limited personal and professional resources Managers in danger of buying that one way ticket to 'the fast track to the bottom' - the ones who know that ticket is free with every unmanageable employee!   Four guesses as to why the problem has never been solved? Resources are constantly shrinking - or just plain disappear No one stays around long enough to fix it The problems are the same everywhere Wherever you go, people are there Here's a freebie - you fill in the blank ______________________     What's different - now that an Antidote has finally been found???? Strange and difficult employee issues are finally on the table to prod, poke and discuss You can laugh in recognition instead of cry in frustration You (and managers like you) need more than exhortation - you need practical reality and probably a crash helmet.  Managing The STAFF INFECTION gives it to you - now.  ("Which 'IT'?" you may ask.  Buy the book and find out for yourself.)   What should you do now? BUY the book. Buy THE book. Buy the BOOK. OK.  Do I LOOK like your mother?  Buy the book!

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