I was getting ready to check out at Barnes and Noble recently after a long stint of reading and noticed this book on the discount table: Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work. Since picking it up I've not only been intrigued by it, but am also using it as a teaching tool for my weekly manager's training sessions.
“Scratch the rational surface of any company and you uncover a hotbed of emotions: people feeling anxious about performance, angry with coworkers, and misunderstood by management You find leaders who are burned out and assistants who are buried in resentment…These individuals feel trapped by their circumstances, stuck in a losing game. They’re unable to free themselves from a bad situation…They think their options are to suck it up or quit…We call the experience of being caught in an emotionally distressing situation at work as being hooked…There is a way out. You don’t necessarily kill anyone or quit your job.”
What’s the answer? If you change your reaction you can change your life.
They call the activity of changing your reaction to emotionally upsetting circumstances at work as unhooking.
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