Articles and reviews from Zach

This is one of the books of my  collection since  2+ more years.It comes from a malaysian imprint  of price  less than  6 Euros. I here wil describe   the book  by a 'technical' manner. Book  design and layout: This book  has a less than A5   design  of ca 148 pages with the use of quite thick doc paper  that makes a  9 mm  thick book. i.e. nearly  the double of the  standard  thickness book . Cover pages are glossy mat type   with some emoticon type or cartoon type  faces describing 8 of the 10  types of difficultpeople as described  in the book. The text of the book  is quite  loose with  nonstandard fonts of 1.5  line spacing  making 30 lines  per page.  First pages of each  chapter of the 12 included , are framed . other pages are not . Each paragraph set  is leaded  by a headine formatted with arial type fonts  of...

Toxic people This is another book found in my self-help collection from the older times. Mr Glass in this book makes a partial remake or possibly follow up of her  Verbal Self defense  but seems more specific regarding to the other book as it goes closely to toxic persons  that defending in general ON the start  the book  deals with all characteristics (more  than 120! )that  imply in a toxic person then it analyses  the behavior and on how you can understand of a person is toxic  from the discussions you may have.  The techniques it describes  are identical to the other book  with possibly less wording and then on how to cope with them , using a series of strategies referred in the previous chapter (8) All remain chapters on the end ,which are  mostly  for motivation,  seem  not to have any relation with the defense book but hey seem to me quite interesting as well as  moving . What ...

Verbal Judo      With   comparisons   to tongue fu book Verbal judo is  now the number 3 book in the series  ordered  via amazon as the remain. The book  is smaller and  thinner than the tongue fu with ca 180 pages   I started reading the book together with making notices in Greek but soon I stopped noticing as  most of the start of the book was  filled by his stories as a cop  and was quite boring to me .  The first interesting part  was after chapter 9 and still  with little  or less than little  interest , comparing to the  Sam  Horn's  book . I  found that the book repeats  sometimes the same thing , which makes me rather disappointed. But  more interesting is after chapter 12 as these  chapters give more essential  information  with more difficult situations than  someone will cope in the real life than a cop. B...

Tongue fu is the second of  my verbal self defense books There is also a  interesting story  in the preface on how  it was called :  The author has develolpped seminars on how to defend  difficult situation and negotiations. After one of her seminar ended , one attendee didn't leave  the classroom , and told the author  that these classes  remind him the techniques similar to martial arts , very similar to Kung fu. So Mrs Sam  renamed the  class as Tongue Fu®!  (with always the !  on the end ) This book  has a different approach  than  Mrs Glass  book  ( idiots guide to verbal self defense ) . The book is divided in 5 parts . A total of 30 chapters  between  3 and 8 pages each . Each chapter starts with a quote , then the header , and then full of quotes from famous people  together with short  passages maximum 1 page each after each quote ,  mostly with examp...

Dealing with difficult people  by Brinkman One of   my books of management the older   times which is actually   a booklet with only 50 pages The book   uses simple language with just 2 pages per chapter At first   it shows a very brief description of the most 10 common behaviors (who did this separation ? I found many page using the same separation as well   many of the pages of the book were in full in the internet The list of behaviors is : Tank , sniper , grenade , known it all , think know it all , yes man , no man , nothing man , maybe man and whiner There is also a grid shown   the 4 categories between the   manager’s or employees’ intents versus tasks .  The basic categories   are Get the job done Get the task right Get along with people Get appreciation from people. For each person   there   are some easy to follow strategies with a separate   chapter   for...

  Some reading the title  can think hat this book is related to martial arts or even to karate > the title is a bit misleading . The correct  with it , is   a different  way of thinking into verbal communication. The  author is Lilian Glass , with PhD   in counseling psychology and communication disorders IN this  book  Mrs Glass codifies and writes into techniques and strategies  on why and how you have to communicate with various types of people. Her language is very plain and very easy to understand ,quite funny ,but   there are some  Americanisms that  my dictionary  does not include as for example   cutsie   wootsie , douche and others. In contrast   to the other  related  books as   Tongue Fu! and   V verbal judo,(from what I looked into their Amazon preview  ) this book show shows   guidelines with special boxes as talk back . verbal v...

This is one of my older behavior books written y a columnist and supposedly a bestselling author in the USA . As noticed in his web page is is author of many books related to religious subjects, possibly speaker and so on  As you may know the full expression is sticks and stones can stick my bones but wiords   don’t hurt me . This book   is involved into the power of the words and indirectly into   practical psychology.  The contents of the book are as follows: -           Taking to yourself -           Write down -           Saying thanks -           Greetings -           I don’t know   what to say -           Expressing emotions -     ...

Now a book i n a different aspect than the other books reviewed here. As noticed in the back page of the book : If you have ever wished you had the equivalent of a nanny 911 to defuse tensions i n the office ,your wish has become true .151 quick ideas to deal with difficult people   is the ultimate guide on how to survive challenging employees and co-workers Originally i have found this book from the internet but finally bought it as he cost was too low Just 5 Eu for aA5 book of 200 pages The book uses standard A4 quality paper so it is rather  thick.  Could prefer if the publisher used a better paper. I return back to backpage for description for what it stands for : -keep problem employees for setting the tone in the office -steps to tur troublemakers into team players -confront bullies harassers and ageists -keep backstabber from sabotaging your career -keep aggressive colleague from commandeering your meeting -know when to...