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How to Work with Stupid People

A Practical Guide to Navigating Workplace Challenges with Strategic Business Communication Skills

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Surrounded by incompetence? Feeling like you’re trapped in a never-ending meeting with clueless coworkers?

Welcome to the survival guide you didn’t know you desperately needed.

For anyone navigating today’s chaotic workplace filled with baffling decisions, endless meetings, and maddening mediocrity, How to Work with Stupid People offers a practical, witty, and research-backed blueprint to protect your sanity — and your career. Drawing on 30 years of experience inside corporate madhouses, JS Paxton unpacks the psychology of irrational behavior and gives you tactical strategies to communicate, lead, and thrive even when logic has left the building.

Packed with anecdotes and research-backed frameworks, How to Work with Stupid People provides clarity amidst confusion, empowering you to:

Decode the "species of stupidity" sabotaging your workplace
Master practical tools to communicate with the intellectually challenged — without losing your cool
✅ Use subtle sarcasm, emotional detachment, and tactical strategies to manage your reactions.
Safeguard your mental health and career progress in toxic environments
✅ Transform frustration into influence with smart, actionable frameworks
✅ Survive and even thrive inside endless meetings, idiotic decisions, and leadership dysfunction

Whether you’re dealing with The Oblivious Ostrich, The Bumbling Buffalo, The Teflon Tactician, or the Jargon Juggler, this book will help you stay composed, maintain your professional edge, and chart a smarter path forward — without becoming bitter or burned out.

✔ Perfect for professionals, managers, HR leaders, and anyone dealing with workplace dysfunction
✔ A must-read for anyone who’s ever asked: “How did these people get hired?”

Don’t let the madness win.

Scroll up, grab your copy today, and take control of your sanity, your influence, and your career.

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that there's a light at the end of the tunnel where one can navigate through working with "stupid" people.

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I thought this would be tongue in cheek. It wasn't, actually referring to people with lesser intellectual capabilities as 'stupid' over and over. People I may refer to that way are those who have the IQ, education, or whatever they need to handle a situation but don't use what they have to act according to what they are equipped with through laziness, selfishness, lack of critical thinking, not taking proper time, not consulting or notifying appropriate people, etc. A very insulting work for those who may not have been able to gain education for various reasons, or do not have the mental capacity someone else might have been blessed with from birth. The end of the book presents some questions to ask yourself and suggestions of actions to take for those who feel they need more mental stimulation, which is good regardless of where you are at now, to keep from being frustrated or feeling odd or lonely, and for challenging yourself to grow. None of these suggestions are earthshatteringly new, but it's nice to have them in one place if you are someone looking for stimulation or growth.

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