Difficult Subordinates. The Practice of Russian Managers

The famous Russian manager Maxim Batyrev wrote a book based on 2000 cases about how to find an approach to difficult employees. In any team, there are challenging employees who spoil relationships in the team, affect overall productivity, and hinder the creation of a dream team. Dismissing them is the last resort; the well-known Russian manager Maxim Batyrev offers another way—to find an approach to the problematic subordinate and win them over to your side. Before writing this book, the author collected and analyzed several thousand cases of Russian managers. It resulted in 15 categories of difficult employees—from latecomers and the inactive to burnt-out individuals and narcissists. These are the main types found in every company. Batyrev describes them in the book and explains how to work with them. All the advice has been tested in practice.