Self Conflict

Working with difficult people can reduce your morale, threaten your productivity, deplete your energy, and waste your time. But you don't have to be helpless in the face of other people's craziness! Knowing how to handle coworkers' disruptive behavior is one of the most important career skills you can have, allowing you to become a more valuable employee and a more self-reliant person.

Does your work life "balance" feel anything but? Most people will probably tell you that you need to be more strict about separating your office and home lives, and WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T TAKE THE OFFICE HOME WITH YOU! To this, husband-and-wife authors Caitlin and Andrew Friedman say: Think again! In Family Inc., they share how they were able to use the organizational strategies they'd relied on in their professional lives to bring the joy - and yes, the sanity - back into their home.

I am not a lawyer. I am survivor of a divorce that to a great extent was resolved amicably because my lawyer and I adhered to the principles and rules I put forth in this book. I derived the principles and rules from my experience, conversations with my lawyer, observations of several friends as they meandered and muddled through their divorce proceedings, and written cases that were similar to mine - all of which I found to be instructive, some of which I found to be bizarre.