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Toxic Workplace!

By: Mitchell Kusy, Elizabeth Holloway
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
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"The day this person left our company is considered an annual holiday!"

This quote, taken from Kusy and Holloway's research on toxic personalities, echoes the frustration and confusion that come from working with or managing an extremely difficult person. Just one toxic person has the capacity to debilitate individuals, teams, and even organizations.

Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of destruction in an organization, pervading others' thoughts and energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500 list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors, create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of respectful engagement.

Kusy and Holloway's research reveals the warning signs that indicate a serious behavioral problem and identifies how this toxicity spreads in systems with long-term effects on organizational climate, even after the person has left. Their two-year, cutting-edge research study provides very specific actions that leaders need to take to reduce both the intensity and frequency of toxic personalities at work. No other book provides this menu of options from a systems perspective with practical relevance in real work situations.

You'll learn how to identify the toxic personality and describe the leader reactions and approaches that typically don't work. Toxic Workplace! provides hands-on approaches that work with research-based strategies at the individual, team, and organizational level. Toxic Workplace! will provide new insights on how leaders lead, how organizational cultures sustain themselves, and how teams deal with toxic personalities.

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Every workplace should make this a mandatory reading for its leadership. This goes a long way in identifying toxic people and their behaviors. One thing I learned from this book is that toxic people can be producers and that management does not get rid of them. It is informative and worth the read.

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This is a great beginner book for those interested in healthy workplace environments. Hope you enjoy.

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Healthy was to manage Workplace Toxicity

The author did a good job of identifying toxic leadership, break down how to work through it, and resolve it or at least a develop a plan to mange toxicity in the workplace.

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Most for toxic coworkers

Didn’t really offer a lot of this information. Didn’t Offer any information on how to deal with or help the problem

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