Working with Porcupines: 24 Ways to Sharpen Your Leadership Style

Seeking a healthy work/life balance?Don't let porcupine-like people cause major problems in your career or life. Learn what to do when the boss is wrong. Know when to leave a difficult workplace. Become an expert at dealing with difficult, prickly people. Working with Porcupines gives you 24 hard-won lessons-learned and hundreds of practical tips on working with every type of person and being an outstanding leader and manager!Mack's books serve as guidebooks, professional career guardrails that can help you avoid pitfalls and keep you safely moving forward in your career.He explains his successes and failures, along with tips and tools so you can make successful decisions about conflict resolution, gaining career visibility among bosses, knowing when to change companies, when to say 'no' to a job, and how to be the team leader you want to work for.He provides time-tested techniques and tools for dealing with prickly, porcupine-like bosses, coworkers and clients, and how to lead teams on difficult projects and challenging programs.These are the books every seasoned, experienced PM and technical team leader today wishes they had been able to learn from, when they were slogging through their careers, learning on-the-job and making serious mistakes - - - - mistakes that you will NOT be making.