Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of YourLife at Work

ISBN: 0399181814

Author: Green, Alison

Condition: New

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York magazines work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations-featuring all-new advice!Theres a reason Alison Green has been called the Dear Abby of the work world. Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply dont know what to say. Thankfully, Green does-and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. Youll learn what to say when coworkers push their work on you-then take credit for it you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit reply all youre being micromanaged-or not being managed at all you catch a colleague in a lie your boss seems unhappy with your work your cubemates loud speakerphone is making you homicidal you got drunk at the holiday partyClear and concise in its advice and expansive in its scope, Ask a Manager is the book I wish Id had in my desk drawer when I was starting out (or even, lets be honest, fifteen years in).-Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck