Free (nook/Kindle) Your Boss Is Not Your Mother [Workplace Relationship Psych Advice]

[ATDrake]

Your Boss Is Not Your Mother: Eight Steps to Eliminating Office Drama and Creating Positive Relationships at Work by clinical psychologist Debra Mandel, PhD, is her consciously-dealing-with-buried-personal-issues-that-push-your-subsconsious-buttons business career-enhancing self-help guide and workbook to Exactly What It Says In The Title, specifically oriented towards women but containing helpful tips applicable to any gender* and probably in non-office situations as well, free courtesy of publisher Agate's B2 imprint.

This has been previously offered free in 2013, but never seems to have gotten mentioned on MR or in the other usual freebie-spotting places, so we might as well just treat it as a new offering for the purposes of the daily non-repeat thread count, especially since this seems like it could be a useful title for many people dealing with work/other interpersonal relationship issues and thus could use a bit of spotlight.

Currently free, probably just until the weekend @ B&N (may also drop in the UK) & Amazon (not available to Canadians, but also free in the UK), and may also show up later as a DRM-free PDF download directly @ the publisher's webcatalogue page, as Agate freebies sometimes do.

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat… ish) free ebook thread of the day.

Because while your boss is not your mother, sometimes your dark side enemy leader antagonist is indeed your father†.

Enjoy, and Happy Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with you! <-- I guess this is as close as we have to a Yoda smiley?

Description
According to CareerWomen.com, 66 percent of women who are unhappy at work attribute it to their relationships with coworkers. These women suffer because they continually get sucked into needless workplace drama-with co-workers, bosses, subordinates, and clients. In doing so, they're usually replicating problems they had with parents, siblings, or others in childhood. Once ensnarled, these women don't have the knowledge or tools to escape these traps.

Debra Mandel has worked with hundreds of women whose unhealed childhood hurts have caused them problems at work. Although most of us understand that childhood wounds can affect intimate relationships, we're caught off guard when they affect workplace interactions. Nevertheless, once those familiar buttons get pushed, we may transform our overbearing boss into our bullying older brother, or we may respond to the judgmental co-worker as though she is the parent who failed to applaud us for our achievements.

Your Boss Is Not Your Mother attacks these problems at the roots. Using real-life stories and anecdotes, it demonstrates how readers can learn how to respond to people in the workplace with a clear head. They'll also learn about how to distinguish a truly abusive boss or co-worker from one who is actually harmless, how to deal with flirtations and office romance opportunities, and how to negotiate the unique and often unexpected dilemmas of dealing with other women at work. It's full of interactive features-self-tests, exercises, checklists-designed to help readers explore and assess their workplace interactions.

Your Boss Is Not Your Mother will benefit any woman who wants to let go of old, negative influences and take charge of her professional life.

* "Strong enough for a man! But made for a woman!" Kind of.

† It's like "men are from Mars, women are from Venus". Maybe.