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| Writer | Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publish Date | 2005 |
| Pages | 233 |
| File Size | 1 MB |
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You or your people have the talent, education, and skills to do much more than you are currently doing. So what’s getting in your way? If it’s people you work with, what’s getting in their way? After my first book, Get Out of Your Own Way, was published, I received hundreds of letters from people whose self-defeating behavior had caused them to be unhappy not just in their personal lives but also in their professional lives.
Many of these readers had lost out on pay increases, promotions, and advancement. My clinical practice suddenly filled with men and women who, for a variety of reasons of their own making, had put their reputations, jobs, and careers in jeopardy. One such patient was John. Fifty-five years old and prematurely gray, John was clearly suffering.
Worry lines had plowed deeply into his forehead, and he walked with a slump of disappointment. The previous week, John had been fired from his job as an accountant because he refused to adapt to inevitable change. The challenge had been to learn a complex new software platform on which the company had bet its future.
Resenting the “adapt or die” requirement, John ignored the hints, suggestions, warnings, and the ultimatum. Instead, he led a rebellion—trying to convince people in his department that the company was better off staying with the old system. And so he was fired, after devoting fifteen years of his life to the firm.
Get Out of Your Own Way PDF