Grow Wherever You Work

Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges by Joanna Barsh
Audio Book:  8 hrs., 47 mins.       Hardback Book:  272 pages       

A good manual that all workers would do well to read.   It doesn't deny that bad things will happen nor that colossal screw ups will suddenly disappear.  Instead, this book tells you the many mistakes well known entrepreneurs have made as well as middle managers and first liners and offers suggestions and lessons learned to help the worker come back from them.   The book discusses job pressure and how to de-stress instead of distressing.   How to use poor reviews to your advantage.  It tells you how to deal with all those Eddie Haskells on the job that shine brightly with doe eyes when the boss is around then treats their co-workers like crap when the boss isn't around.   It teaches you how to go for it and challenge yourself with a little motivational risk taking.  How to put the pieces back together when things get out of control and rein them back in.   And yes, how to know when it is time to move on.    Lots of ideas and solutions to nagging job issues from workers at all levels and from various different backgrounds and skill levels.   Helps workers to see the opportunities in what at first appears a gut-wrenching problem.  Defines challenges as career and esteem builders and how no matter who you are you can or where you work you can grow where you work by believing in yourself and setting your own path toward achieving your goals.   Excellent book.   I recommend this one to middle schoolers who need to know the realities they will face one day in the workplace all the way through those who are in their earning years and yes those in the retirement years so they can offer wisdom to their family members those workers coming behind them.