Nice Guys Finish Last And Other Workplace Lies

Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace

John Ruffa

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781637427323
• eBook ISBN: 9781637427330
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies: Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace 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.

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.

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.

Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies: Successfully Navigating the Modern Workplace 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.

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.

Written in a straightforward, entertaining, and easy to digest manner, Nice Guys Finish Last and Other Workplace Lies 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Description
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Lies in the Workplace
• Chapter 2 Technical Versus Non-Technical Challenges
• Chapter 3 The Need for “Soft Skills” in a “Hard Skill” World
• Chapter 4 Building Your Community
• Chapter 5 A Failure to Communicate
• Chapter 6 The Value of a Mentor
• Chapter 7 What, Me a Mentor?
• Chapter 8 You Have to Earn It
• Chapter 9 Drawing the Line
• Chapter 10 Crawl Before You Walk, Walk Before You Run
• Chapter 11 Wherever You Go, There You Are
• Chapter 12 Climbing Out of the Ivory Tower
• Chapter 13 I Can’t Hear What You’re Saying, Your Actions Are Speaking Too Loudly
• Chapter 14 Creating a Team Culture
• Chapter 15 The Danger of No Dissent
• Chapter 16 Reinventing the Wheel
• Chapter 17 The Right Man (or Woman) for the Job
• Chapter 18 Training Your Replacement
• Chapter 19 Someone Looking Over Your Shoulder
• Chapter 20 Are You Better Off With Them or Without Them?
• Chapter 21 Are You an Impostor?
• Chapter 22 The Big Red Line
• Chapter 23 Avoiding Blind Spots
• Chapter 24 The Value of Worry
• Chapter 25 Risky Business
• Chapter 26 Breaking the Rules
• Chapter 27 Recovering From Failure
• Chapter 28 The Art of Negotiation
• Chapter 29 Fear Versus Loyalty
• Chapter 30 Don’t Let Things Roll Downhill
• Chapter 31 No Stupid Questions Allowed
• Chapter 32 Seeing the Big Picture
• Chapter 33 Setting Boundaries
• Chapter 34 Burning Out
• Chapter 35 Sometimes the Problem Is Just Hard
• Chapter 36 Voting With Your Feet
• Chapter 37 Treating People Right
• Chapter 38 Being a Lifelong Learner
• Chapter 39 The Value of Experience
• Chapter 40 Avoiding Communication Missteps
• Chapter 41 The Value of Relationships
• Chapter 42 Next Steps
• About the Author
• Index
• Other Titles in the Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Collection
• Back Cover