These office-humor comics illustrate the updated edition of the professional advice book "People: Managing Them (And Yourself) Effectively" by Richard Smith.  Each illustration is a humorous reference to one of the 60 short chapters  which make up the book.

​​​​​​​Chapter 1: Heroes Are Not Welcome

Chapter 2: Be Yourself! Always. Everywhere.

Chapter 3: Help! I Need Somebody! (The Great Standoff)

Chapter 4: People Are Awkward

Chapter 5: Education is King (or Queen)

Chapter 6: The Importance of Cheerleading

Chapter 7: "Thinking" is an Action

Chapter 8: Listen

Chapter 9: The Most Uncommon Sense

Chapter 10: The Perfect Boss

Chapter 11: The Prefect Boss

Chapter 12: The Perfect Employee

Chapter 13: The Imperfect Employee

Chapter 14: Teamwork

Chapter 15: Stress

Chapter 16: Losing the Good Ones

Chapter 17: Stating and Questioning the Obvious

Chapter 18: Results

Chapter 19: Balancing the Three P's

Chapter 20: Dealing With Customers 

Chapter 21: Informational Meetings

Chapter 22: Presentation Skills

Chapter 23: Managing Resource Constraints

Chapter 24: Be A F.O.R.C.E. of Nature: The Secret Sauce in Effective Project Management

Chapter 25: Ladders and Other Dangerous Things

Chapter 26: Politics At Work: Game Playing

Chapter 27: Passive Aggression

Chapter 28: Will All the Assholes Please Stand Up?

Chapter 29: Going Up: Escalation Culture

Chapter 30: "Not Invented Here" Syndrome

Chapter 31: We Are Watching You

Chapter 32: Micro-Management: The Poster Child for Wasteful Management

Chapter 33: I Cannot Feel My Toes

Chapter 34: Power Loss: The Winter of Your Discontent

Chapter 35: Dealing With Things

Chapter 36: Taking Back Time

Chapter 37: Sharing the Love: Not So Much, Please

Chapter 38: Communications

Chapter 39: Reorganize, Renew, Repeat: The Three R's

Chapter 40: Downsizing

Chapter 41: Upsizing

Chapter 42: Motivating People: Helping to Drive Performance

Chapter 43: Change Agents: Ha Ha!

Chapter 44: A Company That is a Good Social Partner

Chapter 45: Leading an Organization to Greatness

Chapter 46: A M.A.D.D. Approach to Recovery in Stormy Times

Chapter 47: How to Kick Start a Cultural Change

Chapter 48: Slicing Things Up: Where Did All My Free Time Go?

Chapter 49: The Truth Will Set You Free

Chapter 50: Speed

Chapter 51: Marathons: Meetings Without End

Chapter 52: Do Not Panic

Chapter 53: Доверяй, Но Проверяй  (Trust, But Verify) 

Chapter 54: Loyalty

Chapter 55: What Now?

Chapter 56: Problem Solving

Chapter 57: Smell the Roses

Chapter 58: The Good

Chapter 59: Home Life

Chapter 60: Diversity!

Chapter 61: Coaching and Mentoring

Chapter 62: Filling Generational Gaps

Epilogue

Part 1: People

Part 2: The Job 

Part 3: The Games

Part 4: The Actions

Part 5: Corporate Movements

Part 6: Simple Stuff

Part 7: The Point

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