Our Book: Why Work is Weird
Work....weird or wonderful? At its best work can be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable parts of our life. Yet for many of us work is far from perfect. We work too hard, we lose our sense of perspective, there is no time for fun and creativity and before we know it work is not as rewarding as it used to be. Without realising it we end up behaving in ways that are simply 'plain weird' in an attempt to survive and thrive at work.
Why Work Is Weird examines how the ways that modern organisations are run can find and exploit our individual Achilles’ heels and insecurities in ways that are bad for us and often bad for the organisation itself.
Based on over thirty years of combined experience as experts in the field of organisational behaviour, Lee Sears and Jerry Connor, have identified six different traps that many people fall into at work. By creating a character called the Workdoctor, they explore these six different 'diseases' that can be caught at work, what causes them, and how to overcome them. The big issues they deal with include losing your identity in an attempt to fit in at work, work-life balance and workaholism, becoming a power-junkie or a pushover, losing your emotions at work or becoming addicted to promotion and achievement.
Find out whether you have caught Chameleonitis, if your friends think you are a Jargon Junkie, or whether you are victim to the Superman Syndrome. Why Work Is Weird will help you look at ways of getting on at work without having to pay the costs and make the compromises that so many people seem to.