Title : Impossible to Please: How to Deal with Perfectionist Coworkers, Controlling Spouses, and Other Incredibly Critical People Category: Conflict Management
Brand: New Harbinger Publications
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Everyone knows someone who is impossible to please, critical, judgmental, picky, and stubbornly closed-minded. These are symptoms of a disorder called obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), but it’s common for people to have subclinical levels of some or all of these qualities. Most of the time, it’s best to avoid the difficult to please person, but what happens when he or she is a close family member, coworker, or even a spouse? It’s still possible to maintain a positive relationship with the right tools. Impossible to Please, written by the authors of Toxic Coworkers, is a manual for dealing with these difficult people without sitting through stressful arguments, vicious insults and attacks, and passive-aggressive behavior. It empowers readers to take charge of the relationship and regain their dignity and confidence in interactions with these individuals.
This book features specific strategies that are immediately effective when conversing with critical people and explains how readers can respond to unfair blame without becoming angry or overly defensive. By setting boundaries, improving communication, and asserting themselves, readers learn to deal with the impossible to please in romantic relationships, friendships, family, and work relationships.
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amazingly helpful!
I am the mate of a controlling spouse who I ALSO work with. This has been the source of significant stress, to say the least. I have been feeling depressed and also very enraged.
This book gave me so many strategies for making my situation at work and at home better. It showed me how to effect change EVEN THOUGH I cannot expect to change my controlling, perfectionistic mate. It gives great, real life scenarios and conversations, ways to communicate poorly, and efficiently, with the perfectionist.
This book is empowering without giving the impression that perfectionists are horrible, toxic people that need to be avoided at all cost. When you love the person, "getting out of a toxic environment" is so unhelpful, and I am so glad that so very much of this book is about boundaries and getting everyone's needs addressed.
Buy this book, you will NOT regret it.
For dealing with EXTREMELY critical people (limited application)
I imagine this book would be helpful if you are dealing with the very specific type of personality they describe in the book. It is not for dealing with GENERALLY critical people, but rather for dealing with EXTREMELY critical people who are truly using criticism as a mean to control.
THe first half of the book (understanding controlling perfectionists) was particularly limited in its use for me, and I imagine for most people, as this is the part where the EXTREME controlling perfectionist is described. I quickly realized that the people I was dealing with were not as controlling as the extent of the people described in this book.
However, the second half of the book (practical strategies) was still of some use. They address setting boundaries and improving communication, and then specific tips for personal life vs work life. Of course so much of the advice is still based on the reader (me, you) not taking things personally when someone is overly critical... which of...
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