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What is this book about?
This book is about coping with the crazy people at work.
Life is too short and too precious to allow ourselves to be side tracked by impossible people and the impossible problems they create.
The book has 10 rules to survive by. Rule # 1 Crazy People Make You Crazy is the foundation of all of them. The rules allow you to identify and then avoid the crazy people and situations that drag you down.
The sub-title of the book is The Survival Guide for Coping with Impossible People. This is not a get rich or get sex self-help book. This is about getting your life focused on what is truly important. It will help you to keep your focus on the important stuff that makes up a wonderful life.
Who should read this book?
That life is short and precious is a truism, but it is a truism that resonates deeply in the hearts of those of us who have dipped our toes into the waters of middle age or beyond.
Perhaps the realization comes when we hit a 40th birthday or a 15th wedding anniversary.
All of a sudden, life is flying by.
What we want at that point more than anything is to pay attention to what matters. We want time for precious things whatever unique combination of family and friends and hobbies and faith and community brings each of you his or her unique sense of joy and fulfillment. That is what makes this a genuinely different kind of self-help book.
What else makes this book different?
It is written is to be a quick satisfying read. Many people do a two hour blitz. That airplane ride to Chicago becomes an entertaining learning experience.
The book is friendly, conversational and entertaining. Some people see it as serious book that has cartoons; others see it as a funny book with some serious points to absorb.
A Rules Wallet Card is provided free to every book or e-book purchaser.
You will find new and interesting concepts on every page.
What are the benefits to you, the reader?
Be happy, calm and survive in a loud, noisy, crazy working world
Do your job in a calm and organized manner because you realize that you are not crazy.
Have a positive impact on your family, work and community because you have perspective and attention on what really matters in life.
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The Team
John J. Patterson - Author
Over a 38-year business career, Mr Patterson held senior executive and consulting positions in a number of industries. Most roles were leadership positions in the Operations and Technology areas. He was EVP/COO for two companies; partner with a major global consulting firm; Co-founder and president of a regional consulting company.Early in his career, he was a production scheduler in a glass bottle factory, a stereo salesman and later a computer programmer and project manager. He started a record store and a brass furniture store.
Mr. Patterson resides on Spring Branch Farm in Butler, Maryland with Katharine, his wife of almost 35 years. They have two wonderful daughters, Grace and Hannah. He and Katharine travel frequently usually on birding adventures.
Jim Duffy - Editor
Jim Duffy is a writer and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, MD. He has been an award-winning editor and writer at several regional magazines, including Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay. He holds an MA from Northwestern University.
He has launched Secrets of the Eastern Shore, a business that develops products and books that help people celebrate and explore the Delmarva Peninsula.
Mark Hill - Illustrator
Mark Hill is a Boulder, Colorado-based cartoonist & illustrator. He began drawing when he was old enough to hold a crayon without also eating it. His work has been published in Time, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, and he has illustrated over 30 books, (ranging from children's to business books.) His corporate clients include Bayer, Boeing, Cisco Systems, GM, Google, Intel Corp., Merck, Northwestern Mutual, Pepsi & Time Warner.
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A practical guide to recognizing, adjusting for, and dealing with difficult people in the workplace.
This book focuses on a subject that many people encounter on a daily basis. In many instances, and especially at work, it’s simply not possible to walk away from unpleasant people; therefore, one must make certain adjustments to one’s mindset to lessen the impact of their disruption. Patterson offers the titular “Rule #1,” which defines such people as “crazy”—not in the clinical sense, but an “everyday brand of crazy”—and provides 10 rules for interacting with such people in one’s career. The book seems to be split into two main parts: the first highlights warning signs to recognize when Rule #1 is in play; the second provides strategies and tools to help readers navigate through tough situations. Each creatively named chapter outlines various scenarios of dealing with “crazy” people, and provides relevant stories and examples; for example, “Rule #4: Count the Bricks,” focuses on how Rule #1 people have a distorted view of progress, and “Rule #8: First Guy on Paper Wins” notes the importance of a paper trail to ensure a clear recollection of facts when faced with “crazy” people’s “faulty memories.” However, Patterson’s “Rule #2” provides the most telling clue that one is dealing with a difficult person: when they “will not remember saying things that you know they said…and they will remember hearing things that you know they never heard.” Such behavior, the author says, will inevitably result in one asking oneself, “Am I crazy?” Using his three decades of business experience as a foundation, Patterson does a good job of identifying such trying situations and providing useful solutions.
A helpful, hands-on approach for preserving personal sanity and professionalism when dealing with irrational co-workers.
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