Nice Guys Finish Last And Other Workplace Lies

<p><b><i>Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies: Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace</i> serves as an essential resource for today’s worker. It directly identifies and exposes the lies, half-truths and misperceptions that cause havoc and disruption in the workplace, offering time-tested principles addressing workplace challenges and facilitating workplace success and advancement.</b></p><p>Today’s modern workplace can be an extremely challenging place. Virtually everyone has a story about an impossible boss, a difficult coworker, a challenging deadline, a toxic work environment, a lack of resources, an annoying new policy- leaving today’s worker in serious need of trusted advice to navigate the daily challenges they face.</p><p>Unfortunately, much of the advice circulating in today’s workplace is misleading and untrue, full of rarely challenged and generally accepted principles and “truths” that are actually false. Regrettably, well-meaning people often adopt these lies, myths, and misrepresentations and too often suffer the consequences of the poor advice that they convey.</p><p><i>Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies: Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace</i> meets this urgent need by serving as an essential resource for today’s worker. It directly identifies and exposes the lies, half-truths and misperceptions that cause havoc and disruption in the workplace, offering time-tested principles addressing workplace challenges and facilitating workplace success and advancement.</p><p>Written by an experienced NASA engineer with a long career of practical, hands-on experience leading technical teams on complex spaceflight missions, this book leverages years of experience to clearly identify the lies and mistruths prevalent in today’s workforce. Armed with a wealth of examples from his own challenging workplace experiences, each chapter identifies common workplace falsehoods and highlights key principles vital for workplace success.</p><p>Written in a straightforward, entertaining, and easy to digest manner, <i>Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies</i> dispels commonly accepted workplace myths and provides the reader with the benefits of a lifetime of practical workplace experiences without having to experience the “school of hard knocks” themselves.</p>