Work takes up most of a waking life, and this book treats making peace with it as a practical problem. Dale Carnegie collects advice on working habits, fatigue, boredom and the small frictions that wear people down at their desks.
Sections deal with getting along with colleagues, building routines that conserve energy, and recognising the kind of tedium that is really exhaustion in disguise. The counsel stays concrete rather than abstract, with the aim of leaving a reader with a steadier day and a clearer sense of purpose in the job already in hand.
Where it helps most:
• Guidance on working habits and daily routine
• Advice on relating to colleagues and managers
• Methods for managing fatigue and monotony
• Compact sections that fit a commute or lunch break
Suited to office workers, jobseekers and readers of practical self-improvement writing, available through Boipoka.