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Help! I'm Surrounded by Idiots

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In Help! I'm Surrounded By Idiots: A Workplace Survival Guide, author Tom E. Jones draws upon his many years of experience and expertise working with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, health care providers, and small businesses to offer a jargon-free presentation of what working men and women can and should do to create rapport with colleagues and work with their associates to build better careers and better companies. Help! I'm Surrounded By Idiots argues against the traditional "one size fits all" approach so common to standard personnel training and typical workshop gurus. Tom Jones has a natural writer's gift for making sophisticated concepts and complex work place relationships readily understandable and instantly recognizable to the reader. Very strongly recommended reading for anyone wanting to successfully deal with staff and management generated workplace stress should give a careful and instructive reading to Help! I'm Surrounded By Idiots.

I work for a government agency which isn't always known for drawing the best and brightest. This book has helped me understand the motivation (or lack of) behind my coworkers approach to their work ethic. I find this book a valuable resource that I turn to again and again as I make my way through different levels of my organization.

Having worked in the public, nonprofit and for profit sectors, I have found collaboration to be all too rare. Author Tom E. Jones spells out the conditions for successful teamwork. Leaders and followers each have their own dynamics that have the potential of blending in a mutually beneficial manner. This books offers a perspective on what it takes to work productively by focusing on tasks rather than personalities and styles. His chapters on levels of initiative, and assembling a team are priceless.