NEW BOOK
“Face It: Recognizing and Conquering the Hidden Fear That Drives All Conflict at Work,” by Art Horn, Amacom, $21.95.
What you’ll learn: Fear is a major obstacle to organizational and personal success. It shows itself as fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of success. Fear creates conflict by altering the personalities of those in its grip. Using case studies, Horn identifies six fear-induced personalities, their views of the workplace and how to deal with them. Take a look around your workplace and you’re sure to see many of them.
Horn introduces the six types and gives strategies for coping with them. Here’s his 30-second analysis of the three most common: Worriers operate in a constant state of anxiety and live on the downside of every issue; control freaks assert themselves constantly because they fear being out of control; and fakes deal with fear of unimportance by maintaining their self-importance.
–Jim Pawlak, BizBooks
NEW BOOK
“Trust Me: Developing a Leadership Style People Will Follow,” by Wayne Hastings and Ron Potter, WaterBrook Press, $21.99.
What you’ll learn: The first step on the path toward true leadership is humility. True leaders are teachable; they recognize they don’t know what they don’t know. They want to learn; they want input.
The authors believe that ego “defines your boundaries of influence.” A large ego is a wall with command-and-control graffiti scrawled on it. It gets in the way of asking others for help. A small ego is the doorway to collaboration.
–Jim Pawlak, BizBooks
