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    Is Work Killing You?: A Doctor's Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

    Is Work Killing You?: A Doctor's Prescription for Treating Workplace Stress

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      ISBN-13: 9781770892767
    • Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
    • Publication date: 02/02/2013
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 360
    • File size: 2 MB

    David Posen: David Posen, M.D., is a physician, popular speaker, and the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief, which sold more than 50,000 copies and has been translated into five languages.

    Table of Contents

    Preface: Why I Wrote This Book 1

    Introduction: Workplace Stress - Setting the Context

    Defining the Problem 9

    What Is Stress and How Do You Know When You Have It? 13

    Why Should You Care? Why Is This Important? 17

    The Futility of UAU: When Good Stress Becomes Bad Stress 23

    Six Degrees of Stress: Everyone's a Victim 28

    Sources of Stress: The Big Three 34

    Section 1 Volume: The Factors that Contribute to Overload and What Can Be Done About It

    Chapter 1 What Tips Us Over: The Causes of Overload 45

    Chapter 2 Too Few Hands to Share the Load 55

    Chapter 3 The Elephant in the Room: The Conspiracy of Silence 62

    Chapter 4 Belief Systems and Changing the Corporate Zeitgeist 74

    Chapter 5 The Fallacy of Face Time: Performance Measurement Has to Change 82

    Chapter 6 The Lunacy of Long Hours and the Need to "Work Fresh" 87

    Chapter 7 The Slippery Slope to Burnout 102

    Chapter 8 Where's Your Sweet Spot? The Zone for Optimal Performance 114

    Chapter 9 Fake Work and Spinning Wheels; Prioritizing and Letting Stuff Go 121

    Chapter 10 Slicing Up the Corporate Pie; Restoring the Basic Bargain 130

    Section 2 Velocity: How to Navigate the World of Work When the Pace is Faster than Ever

    Chapter 11 Unrealistic Expectations: The Mind Trap That Fuels the Treadmill 113

    Chapter 12 Realistic Expectations: Training Your Clients and Customers 155

    Chapter 13 The Myth of Multi-tasking; Single-tasking and Focus 160

    Chapter 14 Timeouts: The Pause That Refreshes 166

    Chapter 15 Overuse and Misuse of Technology and How to Tame It 174

    Chapter 16 Meetings; The Need for a New Meetings Manifesto 191

    Chapter 17 Bureaucracy and Red Tape: Bumps on the Road to Productivity 199

    Chapter 18 The Work-Life Interface: Balance or Blending? 204

    Chapter 19 Health Habits and the Staggering Cost of Self-Neglect 216

    Section 3 Abuse: What to Do When the People You Work with are Your Biggest Source of Stress

    Chapter 20 Identifying and Dealing with Problem People 225

    Chapter 21 People Don't Leave Jobs, They Leave Bosses 241

    Chapter 22 The Games People Play: Office Politics 256

    Chapter 23 The Keys to Employee Engagement and Stress Reduction 261

    Chapter 24 The Obsession With Numbers 274

    Chapter 25 Does It All Have to Be About Money? Must the Rich be Filthy Rich? 279

    Conclusion: Prevention

    Pay Now or Pay Later: Prevention Is the Best (and Cheapest) Cure 289

    What Companies Can Do to Decrease Workplace Stress 295

    What Managers and Leaders Can Do 303

    Throttling Back to Move Ahead: It's Time to Recalibrate 308

    Who Will Lead the Charge for Change? Who Will Bell the Cat? 312

    Wrapping Up and Moving Forward 321

    Acknowledgements 327

    Appendices 331

    Resources 341

    Illustration Credits 350

    Index 351

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    “Dr. Posen's work could not be more timely. As people create and manage projects and organizations of ever-increasing complexity, it is more clear than ever that we needed rested, clear heads to make critical decisions. Stress, fatigue, and cognitive overload put all of that at risk and are invariably implicated in all kinds of industrial disasters, from refinery fires to financial crises. We won't make our world safer until we learn to manage our work and ourselves better.” — Margaret Heffernan, author of Willfull Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

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    From the bestselling author of The Little Book of Stress Relief comes the definitive guide to treating — and eliminating — excessive stress in the workplace. Dr. David Posen, a popular speaker and a leading expert on stress mastery, identifies the three biggest problems that contribute to burnout and low productivity: Volume, Velocity, and Abuse. He shares revealing anecdotes and offers clear descriptions of the biology of stress to illustrate how downsizing, economic uncertainty, and technology have made the workplace more toxic than ever. Most importantly, he offers practical advice and easy techniques for managing the harmful symptoms and side effects of stress.

    Witty, engaging, and accessible, Is Work Killing You? touches on everything from meetings to tweeting, from fake work to face time, from deadlines to dead tired, and more. With this book, Dr. Posen gives us the tools to stop harming our most valuable resource — ourselves.

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    Publishers Weekly
    If you don’t want your tombstone to read “death by stress,” the latest book from Posen (after The Little Book of Stress Relief) may have the right remedies for you and your workplace. Posen makes a sound, compelling case for active stress reduction at work, due to concerns such as inefficiency, depression, and increased risk of heart disease and stroke. After defining stress, explaining why it’s damaging, and identifying its main sources, Posen distills the common stressors into three main categories, dubbing them “the Big Three”. He then devotes the body of the book to discussing each one individually, delving into the problems and some possible solutions. The first section covers work volume. The second is about velocity, or the speed at which the workplace and the world of work run. The third discusses abuse, positing that people can create stress just as much as circumstances can. The book is replete with charts, graphs, and diagrams illustrating concepts such as the path to burnout and proper work-life balance. Some of the surprisingly straightforward ideas Posen mentions, such as sending fewer e-mails to receive fewer e-mails, can easily be implemented on a personal level, though this book is primarily aimed at changing the workplace, not the worker. Above all, it’s a call for radical change in corporate culture. (Apr.)
    From the Publisher
    Dr. Posen's work could not be more timely. As people create and manage projects and organizations of ever-increasing complexity, it is more clear than ever that we needed rested, clear heads to make critical decisions. Stress, fatigue, and cognitive overload put all of that at risk and are invariably implicated in all kinds of industrial disasters, from refinery fires to financial crises. We won't make our world safer until we learn to manage our work and ourselves better.” — Margaret Heffernan, author of Willfull Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
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