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The Arsonist in the Office

Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures
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The Arsonist in the Office by Pete Havel is a self-help book that addresses the challenges of dealing with toxic individuals in the workplace. It provides insights and strategies for managing disruptive behaviour and maintaining a healthy work environment, helping readers to protect their professional lives from being consumed by office turmoil.
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You might find this book appealing if you are interested in navigating challenging workplace environments and managing difficult colleagues effectively. It offers insights into dealing with toxic work situations and provides strategies to protect your career and maintain a positive work culture.

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The Arsonist in the Office is the survival guide to the toxic workplace. Experiencing the most toxic company imaginable, Havel shares the lessons he learned that will fireproof company cultures.

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The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues.

If you have ever led an organisation or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues, and organisations across the world have adopted this new movement—not just to "create" a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal, but fireproofing it is just as important.

This book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organisation's arsonists.

Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organisation or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781948484664

Publisher: Carpenter's Son Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Clovercroft Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Author Pete Havel, the master of dealing with difficult personalities from his career in business and politics, tells his story of working in perhaps the nation’s most toxic workplace. An organization where logic, ethics, and policy took a backseat to fear of an employee so toxic they determined they could not fire the person without creating more problems. His career can be explained by saying he knows how to say complicated things to even more complicated people and get along well with people who don’t agree with a word he says. Serving in roles as a lobbyist for some of the most powerful organizations in America, a strategic communications executive for top firms, a political consultant, and a local chamber of commerce president, Pete is an expert in telling a story and bringing people together. The experience he shares in The Arsonist in the Office and the hands-on knowledge he gained will help those who work with toxic, destructive people and corrupted cultures. Born and raised in Massachusetts and now living in Dallas, Texas, Pete enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and cheering on his beloved Boston Red Sox.

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