Most people realize they should avoid that bad boss everyone is talking about, but fewer realize that the ones people aren't discussing could be worse. Bad bosses seem to be hidden around every corner and stashed in every niche. And they come in more varieties than Baskin-Robbins ice cream.Bad Boss, Great Boss tries to make sense of a plethora of problematic supervisors -- from the Gentleman to the Screamer and everywhere in between. Inside this book's pages you'll learn about the ...

Corporate Politics. Every large organization is rife with them. Most employees find politics to be confusing, irritating, unfair, and something to be avoided at all costs. Many years in senior positions inside a variety of large corporations forced me to realize ignoring an organization's politics was essentially impossible. Ignoring politics makes you vulnerable. Ignoring politics can cost you your job. And don't even think about ascending the corporate ladder, where you'll be easily vict...

Roger Follansbee doesn't know what to do.He's the director of Information Technology at ESS, a battery company with a new technology that could revolutionize the world of electrical energy generation and storage. The company is pursuing a license with a German conglomerate to help make Quantum, the new energy storage system, immediately available for multiple applications across the globe. Once the deal is announced, the company's stock price should soar, and everyone -- including ...

JC Martin, recently retired from the Navy, has taken a job with a socially responsible fashion company named Dam Yankee. His position with the firm, as the supplier auditor, is considered critical to the business as their reputation revolves around doing good works in the poorest nations of the world.Martin's first field assignment is to travel to Honduras and audit a firm there known as Moda Cortez, a shirt manufacturer. A successful audit is critical to Martin's boss, the ambitiou...

Many executives long to become the boss, the leader of their corporation. But only one person gets to fill that role, and opportunities to succeed the CEO of a successful company are few and far between. Execs battle one another, hoping to hold the unofficial title of 'Heir Apparent.'In a large Midwestern city, one Heir Apparent is about to slip off the CEO track. Permanently.There is still time to stop it, but at quite a cost. By carefully eliminating the cause of the comi...

Ever wonder what other people think about you? Your work? What you should be focused on?Colin Jensen is obsessed with these questions.As the newly appointed President of the Chemicals Division of the TruePhase Instrument Company, Jensen want to know everything -- where the weak spots are, what needs to be fixed, what's wrong with management, and most importantly how the employees feel about their new manager. To find out, Jensen takes a page out of reality television, const...

Elwood Vilmont, hypercompetitive businessman, and the CEO of Redhouse Consulting, has brought his senior managers to Layoko Lodge for a "team building" exercise. As a part of the agenda, the group plans to spend three days rafting the Chilko river, including running the famous White Mile.Vilmont's crew of misfits, however, seem to be able to do little but whine and complain. When their CEO is unexpectedly kidnapped, the senior managers of Redhouse waste no time in leveling accusati...

Mark Carson was once on a fast rise to the upper echelons of Global Guidance Corporation (GGC), until his wife's affairs and their subsequent divorce destroyed his self-confidence and sent him into a downward spiral. By rediscovering the joy of running, he has seemingly gotten his life back together. Then one warm Minnesota night, Max Wong, a reclusive senior engineer at GGC, shows up at Mark's front door shot in the neck. The wound prevents Max from speaking, but it doesn't stop him from ...

Geologist Julia McCoy is in her first job, and seems to be the most unlikely person ever to challenge management at Matrix Corporation's Ethiopian mining subsidiary. Despite the apparent risks during her site visit, she pushes EthioCupro's top two executives too far.The company has an unusual relationship with supplier Incentivize LLC, and McCoy suspects the managers are using it to rake off profits from the Ethiopian copper mine. How they are doing it, and the larger scheme, howev...

Vice President of Corporate Development at Andax Corporation, Joan Priest, is trusted by management to negotiate and close delicate deals that add significant growth and profits to the company.But Joan has a secret -- one that she fears will be revealed, turning her life upside down.Andax is in the midst of a succession race, structured with two "Co-CEOs," one of which will ultimately succeed retiring Oskar Christoffersen.While Joan is in Brazil, things go from bad to ...

Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lynched on capture. Although he was three times in British custody, Black Tom Birch was never tried or punished. Instead, he defected, and history tells us that for the rest of his life he helpe...

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