One year prior to my birth, 1981, Robert M. Bramson introduced the world to what came to be one of the pioneers in who we as human beings, mostly managers, were to deal with annoying S.O.Bs. Okay, so S.O.Bs. aren’t “correct” way to call them, but we all know that that is the first and original title of the book. Nobody comes home from work and tell who’s ever there; that today, you met a really difficult person. NO! You met a S.O.B.
Any way. The book is what you can expect from the title, it helps you define a difficult person, which kind of “difficulty” this person presents to you, and who to solve/deal with it.
There are seven identified “probelm makers”,
- Hostile-Aggressive
- Complainer
- Silent and Unresponsive
- Super-Agreeables
- Negativist
- Bulldozers and Balloons and
- Indecisive stallers,
all commonly found in an office.
What struck me the most while reading through all of these is, I have been everyone of these S.O.Bs.! My freaking God, I have been all of them. I have stalled, and have bulldozed, heck, I have even been negative for some unexplanatory reason. This book actually helped me more NOT to do these things again, than to help me solve the problem when others are the problem.
There are not many books that I would say that you should read, let alone, there are hardly none that I honestly say are a MUST-read. But this might be one of them. Because it can help you with yourself, as well as others. This is the best motivational book I have ever come across.
READ IT!
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