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Power Freaks

Dealing With Them in the Workplace or Anyplace

By: David L. Weiner

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Paperback | 30 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Best-selling psychology author David L. Weiner reveals the personalities behind the facades of "power freaks." Coming in many guises - including the business psychopath (who may be working down the hall from you), the arrogant and status-obsessed, the messianic, and the perfectionist - they are all driven by an irrational need to dominate and to enhance their status, regardless of the consequences to others. In this well-researched and insightful guide to handling power-crazed individuals who create havoc at work and at home, Weiner explains why they act the way they do and what you can do to prevent them from making your life a living hell!

Power Freaks includes a power quiz to help you assess your own instinctual drive for power, plus an interactive web site that allows you to compare this side of your personality to that of other respondents. Finally, it teaches you how to recognize such potentially destructive people in your life and, most importantly, helps you to develop a strategy to deal with them. In a competitive world, increasingly dominated by intense corporate cultures, this brilliant study in organizational psychology will help you swim safely through shark-infested waters.

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Acknowledgments	p. 9
Foreword	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
Who Are These People?	p. 19
How Does a Power Freak Think?	p. 25
The Power Freak as Caveman	p. 41
The Power Freak Factor in All of Us	p. 61
The Power Freak as Mentally Disordered	p. 77
The Power Freak as Status-Obsessed	p. 95
Situational Power Freaks	p. 109
Directional Power Freaks	p. 125
Stealth Power Freaks: Manipulating While Undercover	p. 139
The Power Freak Factor: Can We Measure Ourselves?	p. 149
Dealing with the Extreme Power Freak Boss	p. 173
Dealing with a Peer Who Is an Extreme Power Freak	p. 207
The Last Gasp Solution: Calculated Avoidance	p. 239
Afterword	p. 249
Notes	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 277
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