Surrounded by Bad Bosses (And Lazy Employees): How to Stop Struggling, Start Succeeding, and Deal with Idiots at Work [The Surrounded by Idiots Series]Paperback

Regarding the parts on bosses, I tried to fit my boss (and myself) into one of the four types (thus 16 combinations) modeled by the author. Perhaps my boss is so sophisticated (she is far above average positively. Me, too) that I cannot make full use of the matching and the corresponding strategy advised by the author. For the sections more on employees, the reality is often much more complex because the HR and Finance “elites” leave you little leeway to do what you consider the best for the company (because their deeds always magnify the top bosses’ wrongs). Anyway, this prescriptive type of tool book has its own market. No worry for the author. For any potential buyer, the safe bet would be a loan from the library to see whether…..

I won this book during a pre-release giveaway. When I got it in the mail, my intent was to only read it at work. My personal, passive-aggressive "SCREW YOU" to my own Bad Boss. Because of this, and with my dyslexia and ADHD, I haven't got too far into it. But I do have enough context to give you a summary.

This book is actually two books in one. The author first wrote, "Surrounded by Idiot Employees." Naturally, combining the two into one made perfect sense. The way the author explains personality styles of bad bosses reminds me of an old Color Based personality test I took in High School, combined with a boss's version of love language. If a boss is one personality type, this is how you communicate with them, or similar.

Like I said, I haven't got through the entire thing yet, but I got to say, the best part of this book is when my Director (my boss's boss) did a walkthrough and saw it on my desk. One of those don't mention it, but you can see her acknowledging it on her face. She was flabbergasted in why I would put in my notice less than 2 weeks later. For that alone, I'd buy again!

‘Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees’ by Thomas Erikson is a book to help navigate and decode the world of work.

Executed with insight and humor, this book attempts to do the impossible, put your coworkers into neat boxes. We work with introverts and after extroverts, but there are also gradations. The author uses gradations of color to differentiate even more. so if you are a introvert blue working with say an extrovert red this might be where problems come in to play. knowing this information could smooth out your work relationships.

it's awful but probably misses some nuances along the way. It can probably help some people as long as they understand this. I like the approach and the humor even if it feels simplistic in nature.