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Keep Your WITS About You

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"Keep Your WITS About You" is an enjoyable read with a big payoff. The multitude of case studies and their analyses give executives and managers the tools they need to create transformational workplaces. Author, Michelle Gall, truly puts the "human" back into H.R. and shows us how to optimize these human resources.
M.Milliken
Communications Consultant

The author has a keen, Dilbert-like eye for the surreal aspects of working for an employer, and is acutely attuned to our strengths and weakness as employees. The book is humorous and insightful, a great airplane read. I've shared with office colleagues the tables that end each chapter where the author presents a common workplace event (e.g., negative feedback at a performance review) and contrasts what would be productive thoughts and actions (of a type of person labeled WITS), with the all-too-typical, dysfunctional response (the half-WITS). I swear every one of the dozens of examples has happened in the places I've worked, and I can name several people within a few cubicles of mine who ought to read this---and get a clue! If you've ever felt strong-armed by an employer to give to the United Way, you are going to enjoy this book.

Having worked for over 30 years in the corporate world, and after having read more than my fair share of self-help books, I have to say that "Keep You Wits About You" was a great find!
Using an abundance of imaginative metaphors, obviously coming from years of experience in the trenches, this book really puts things in the proper spective. (My particular favorite is the soldfish versus the boldfish.)