| View Larger Image | Toxic Work: How to Overcome Stress, Overload and Burnout and Revitalize Your Career | Paperbackby Barbara Bailey Reinhold (Author)
| List Price: | $12.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Plume | | Page Count: | 256 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 01, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 457,233th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
For those who feel "stuck" on the job, Toxic Work is an inspiring guide to creating opportunity even in the most challenging situations. Positive solutions to "toxic" work environments include dealing with your own behaviors; developing healthy ways to manage difficulties with colleagues and bosses; and analyzing physical energy cycles. |
Amazon.com Review
Could the dramatic changes and burdensome responsibilities common to the business world these days literally be making you sick? Barbara Bailey Reinhold, director of career development and adjunct professor of psychology at Smith College, believes factors ranging from ever-escalating workloads to the constant threat of downsizing may actually be poisoning employment environments and causing us to fall ill. In Toxic Work: How to Overcome Stress, Overload, and Burnout and Revitalize Your Career, she cites examples of those who have "detoxified" their workplaces in order to help readers make their own 9-to-5 lives healthier and more productive. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Exelente ayuda para encaminar mi vida by PEDRAZZI CARLOS ALBERTO (Cordoba, Argentina)  5 Stars
October 18, 2009
En febrero del 2000 Toxic Work cayó milagrosamente en mis manos en el momento justo, cuando mi vida profesional como ingeniero en sistemas estaba provocándome problemas graves de salud.
Gracias a Barbara y su libro pude tomar distancia y rediseñar mi vida profesional, familiar y personal. Pude crear un plan de acción para lograr alejarme de mi anterior profesión y re-crear mi existencia como instructor de buceo primero y propietario de un centro de buceo en una ciudad mediterranea, a más de 1000 kilómetros del mar más cercano. Y eso en el tiempo que Barbara garantizaba en su libro, 18 meses.
El capítulo dedicado a diseñar un nuevo trabajo "Career Wish List Exercise" me resultó súmamente práctico, y gracias a lo sencillo del método pude armar una empresa totalmente nueva e inexistente hasta el momento en mi país, Argentina.
Desde entonces he difundido e inspirado a mucha gente a animarse a tomar las riendas de sus vidas y re-nacer profesionalmente.
Gracias Barbara
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There are better books out there by DrAwkward (Baltimore, MD)  2 Stars
March 05, 2007
I didn't find this book very helpful. The author seems to recommend leaving your job more often than I expected. . . if I wanted to do that, I wouldn't be reading this book. I wanted to learn how to FIX the problems that are there.
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An Insightful Book by Javafanatic (Wakefield, MA USA)  3 Stars
February 21, 2002
The Author definitely has a deep understanding of the negative effects that work can have on your health. I particularly liked the idea of thinking of your career as a collage rather than a photo (i.e., designing a composite career).I was distracted by all the feminist references. For example, "Bobbie" feels she has disappointed her family because they expected a boy. The Author explains that women are treated like second class citizens despite being "better students and more productive employees than men" and that women have been told all their lives that they are "less valued and valuable than their brothers". The book also tells the sad tale of "Marianne", a closeted lesbian, and her "homophobic VP".All of that may be true, but it doesn't relate to the topic of overcoming burnout and revitalizing your career. The book was useful, but would have been better if the Author had stayed on-topic.
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Extraordinary resource - Used as required text for courses by Donna A. Maimes (Cambridge, MA USA) 5 Stars
March 02, 2001
Toxic Work is a wonderful resource. I have used the book as a required text for both my graduate level Managment Training and Development and Human Resource Management courses. My students, without exception, rave about the content. Dr. Reinhold's humor and insight have provided me and over 100 of my students with a great set of career problem solving tools and a teriffic bibliography. I keep hoping that there will be a sequel ... perhaps Toxic Two. Keep them comming.
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Work is Less Toxic Now by Geoff (Marlborough, MA USA) 5 Stars
February 29, 2000
Toxic Work is the first reference book in the career section which has a bibliography worth reading. The book not only does all the work for you by collecting and organizing relevent resources, but provides a wealth of examples. The author doesn't give pat answers, but takes the reader through the problem-solving process. I found the book empowering because it provides the structure and information I needed to generate a successful game plan. I became proactive, and am happily employed at the same job that sent me to the book store looking for an escape.
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