Must-Read: Managing Employees from Hell

Yup, you read it right, this book "A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell: Handling Idiots, Whiners, Slackers, and Other Workplace Demons" published in 2006, is a must-read for your day-to-day people management headaches.

In my experience as manager, I actually find problem employees (as tagged by most) to be special, in that, behind the sorely negative work attitude and offish personalities they're a very capable, talented bunch--only if you know how to make them be. It's a hit and miss though, there are those who've uncovered their special self and those that simply won't hack it, but you.

Don't forget to complement your reading with the book published earlier "A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back-Stabbers, and Other Managers from Hell."