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Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Judith Martin
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Description for Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Hardcover. A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly separated work from personal life are blurred, even polite people don’t recognize the difference between professional and social manners.
What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly separated work from personal life are blurred, even polite people don’t recognize the difference between professional and social manners.
- What do you say to a colleague who has just been fired?
- How do you maintain a family-friendly office without discriminating against singles?
- What’s the difference between showing romantic interest and sexual harassment?
- Which ... Read more
- When should you be unavailable, at or away from work?
Don’t convene a focus group or appeal to Human Resources—consult Miss Manners!
With wit and wisdom, Miss Manners restores civility, guiding you around your coworker’s messy cubicle, past your overly prying boss, around the bridal shower for the new temp, and through tedious staff meetings.
In Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Judith Martin and her son, executive Nicholas Ivor Martin, equip readers with the practical, pertinent, and utterly correct advice necessary to win the job, keep the job, and leave the job with sanity and dignity intact.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393081367
SKU
V9780393081367
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99-15
About Judith Martin
Nicholas Ivor Martin, who wrote The DaCapo Opera Manual, worked at the White House and was publisher of the Washington Monthly before becoming director of operations at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter. Judith Martin, born a perfect lady in an imperfect society, is the author of the “Miss Manners” columns and ... Read more
Reviews for Miss Manners Minds Your Business
"Intrepid, practical, and always humane, Miss Manners tackles common workplace hazards: irritating colleagues, rude customers, business travel, and office parties, which she’d prefer to see replaced by 'genuine workplace treats such as bonuses and time off.'"
Publishers Weekly "As they parse delicate questions of hierarchy, privacy, focus, gender, age, family matters, illness, gossip, rants, business trips, meetings, and socializing, ... Read more
Publishers Weekly "As they parse delicate questions of hierarchy, privacy, focus, gender, age, family matters, illness, gossip, rants, business trips, meetings, and socializing, ... Read more