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This was Amy Gallo's new book which laid out archetypes for challenging personalities in the workplace and provided tactics for managing each type. The concept of labeling people as 'difficult' was discussed, with the author noting that behaviors, not people, are difficult, but the title was chosen to be catchy for readers needing help.
She is the author of a new book called Getting Along, How to Work with Anyone, Even Difficult People.
— Episode: Jerks at Work | Amy Gallo
Episode: Jerks at Work | Amy Gallo
This was Amy Gallo's new book which laid out archetypes for challenging personalities in the workplace and provided tactics for managing each type. The concept of labeling people as 'difficult' was discussed, with the author noting that behaviors, not people, are difficult, but the title was chosen to be catchy for readers needing help.
She is the author of a new book called Getting Along, How to Work with Anyone, Even Difficult People.
In this new book you lay out these different archetypes for challenging personalities in the workplace and we'll get to that in great detail but I kind of want to stay on the higher level just for a second.
I actually wanted to put difficult in quotes on the cover because you know it's pretty big there, difficult people and I was like now people won't even know what that means and you sort of have to commit that the readers who you want to buy this book are using that phrase right they're saying I'm dealing with someone who's difficult my hesitation about it and the pushback I've gotten is that people aren't difficult right behaviors are difficult, actions might be challenging for us but people themselves it's unfair to call them difficult.