Why Work is Wierd

An antidote to the frustrations of corporate life
Jerry Connor & Lee Sears

Work: Weird or wonderful?

At its best, work can be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable parts of our life. Yet for many of us work is far from perfect. We work too hard, we lose our sense of perspective, there is no time for fun and creativity and, before we know it, work is not as rewarding as it used to be. Without realizing it, we end up behaving in ways that are simply ‘plain weird’ in an attempt to survive and thrive.

Why Work is Weird examines how the ways that modern organizations are run can find and exploit our individual Achilles heels and insecurities in ways that are bad for us, and often bad for the organization itself.

Based on over 30 years of combined experience as experts in the field of organizational behavior, Jerry Connor and Lee Sears have identified six different traps that many people fall into at work. By creating a character called the Workdoctor, they explore these six different ‘diseases’ that can be caught at work, what causes them, and how to overcome them. The big issues they deal with include losing your identity in an attempt to fit in at work, work-life balance and workaholism, becoming a power-junkie or a pushover, losing your emotions at work or becoming addicted to promotion and achievement.

Find out whether you have caught Chameleonitis, if your friends think you are a Jargon Junkie, or whether you are victim to the Superman Syndrome. Why Work is Weird will help you look at ways of getting on at work without having to pay the costs and make the compromises that so many people seem to make.

“An insightful, thought provoking and thoroughly entertaining guide to what
goes on in the modern workplace.” Max Landsberg, bestselling author of The Tao of Coaching


JERRY CONNOR and LEE SEARS founded Bridge, a consultancy that is dedicated to helping people thrive at work, in 1990. Bridge has helped shape the cultures of some of the world’s biggest, fastest growing and most profitable companies. In the course of their work, Jerry and Lee have developed a keen eye for how to build healthy and sustainable cultures at work.

To find out more about how Bridge can make sure that your workplace is not to weird, please visit:

www.bridge-uk.com or www.whyworkisweird.com 

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