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Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
Dealing with People You Can't Stand How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
Author: Rick Brinkman, Rick Kirschner
The international bestseller--??more than 500,000 copies sold! — With their 1994 international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand, Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner armed a civility-starved world with no-nonsense strategies for dealing with difficult people with tact and skill. Since then, cell phones, the Internet, voice mail, a...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780071379441
ISBN-10: 0071379444
Publication Date: 2/27/2002
Pages: 224
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  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 20 ratings
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
It's about how to deal with different sorts of people at work. Seems to be primarily for office coworker interactions rather than customers or general interactions
reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 65 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
good tips on how to handle annoying people without losing your mind.................
reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This was my survival manual for one particularly stressful job. Describes various personalities, why they act the way they do, and offers ways to deal with them.
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Helpful Score: 2
Excellent book. Written to be understood very easily. Many examples used throughout the book for clarification of teaching. I recommend this book highly for anyone dealing with "office politics" type issues with others.
chickengirl avatar reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 41 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Not really of use to me. Mostly about "breakthrough ways that could change your life" but really aren't realistic. A Dr. Phil type book.
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booklit avatar reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 473 more book reviews
A book that gives good techniques for dealing with the most difficult people. A good read.
reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 6 more book reviews
Action plans for how to deal with those difficult people that are in all our lives...
reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 90 more book reviews
Do you have to deal with people who intimedate you? Others who waffle about simple decisions? Do you ever get tired of hearing, "That won't work" or "It's not my fault?" Is there a 'sniper' in your office who is trying to undermine you?
The fact is that there are difficult people virtually everywhere that there are people, and they can make your life stressful and unpleasant, and prevent you from acheiving important goals ~ but only if you let them!

Learn the nine 'take charge' skills that turn conflict into cooperation in addition to other information
reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 45 more book reviews
On the subject of communications, This book will help you suceed in the business world. How to deal with each type of person.
buzzby avatar reviewed Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst on + 6062 more book reviews
Thought of leaving this on the break table at work, but thought better of it.


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