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Why Dogs Wag Their Tails
June 02, 2008
Lessons Leaders Can Learn About Work, Joy, and Life (W Business Books, $19.95)
By Skip Corsini
O.K., everybody who owns a dog, raise your hands. This book says there are more than 74 million of you out there. Now, raise your hands if you can't stand your bosses. Common sense tells us there are many more than 74 million of you out there. If you have your hand up, you should go buy this book.
Coauthors Sherri McArdle and Jim Ramerman are apparently successful leadership consultants who own dogs, and have some insightful things to say about how to create good, sound work environments for today's employees. The dog stories they include, along with the people stories, add extra humor and credibility to the book. It's full of stories to which we can relate our own. If your boss doesn't get it after reading this, go find a new boss.
In fact, finding a new boss is the subject of my favorite chapter of the book, No. 5, which is to the point, like the other 20 chapters. There is a section of Chapter 5 entitled, "Is It Time to Change Your Boss?" that poses a tough question to ponder, both because it often is a difficult thing to do, and is, at other times, the most necessary thing to do to keep your sanity. In this section, there are two lists of characteristics all of us should consider when interviewing our potential bosses while they are interviewing us. If we all did this, we'd make our work and personal lives much easier. So buy the book, take your time with it, and learn how to help create a better work life in simple ways.
Buy Why Dogs Wag Their Tails: Lessons Leaders Can Learn about Work, Joy, and Life.
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