The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures
The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues.

If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement - to not just “create” a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal but fireproofing it - is just as important.

This book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know how to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organization’s arsonists

Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organization or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!
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The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures
The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues.

If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement - to not just “create” a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal but fireproofing it - is just as important.

This book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know how to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organization’s arsonists

Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organization or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!
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The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures

The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures

by Pete Havel
The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures

The Arsonist in the Office: Fireproofing Your Life Against Toxic Coworkers, Bosses, Employees, and Cultures

by Pete Havel

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Overview

The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues.

If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement - to not just “create” a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal but fireproofing it - is just as important.

This book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know how to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organization’s arsonists

Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organization or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781948484664
Publisher: Clovercroft Publishing
Publication date: 04/15/2019
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 598,609
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Author Pete Havel, the master of dealing with difficult personalities from his career in business and politics, tells his story of working in perhaps the nation’s most toxic workplace. An organization where logic, ethics, and policy took a backseat to fear of an employee so toxic they determined they could not fire the person without creating more problems. His career can be explained by saying he knows how to say complicated things to even more complicated people and get along well with people who don’t agree with a word he says.



Serving in roles as a lobbyist for some of the most powerful organizations in America, a strategic communications executive for top firms, a political consultant, and a local chamber of commerce president, Pete is an expert in telling a story and bringing people together.

The experience he shares in The Arsonist in the Office and the hands-on knowledge he gained will help those who work with toxic, destructive people and corrupted cultures.



Born and raised in Massachusetts and now living in Dallas, Texas, Pete enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and cheering on his beloved Boston Red Sox.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Fired Up 19

Chapter 2 Signs of a Toxic Workplace 39

Chapter 3 The Lunch 45

Chapter 4 Hot Takes on Sexual Harassment and the Battle of the Sexes in the #MeToo Era 53

Chapter 5 Me and My Shadow and-the Arsonist's Apprentice 67

Chapter 6 Fireproofing Your Hiring Process 75

Chapter 7 Hot Off the Presses 81

Chapter 8 How Alarming Is Your Toxic Coworker? From Mildly Bad to Dark Triad 91

Chapter 9 Unfriendly Fire 99

Chapter 10 The Costs of a Toxic Workplace 105

Chapter 11 Firefighting-Correcting and Removing Toxic Employees in a Toxic Workplace 121

Chapter 12 Alice in Wonderland and the Fiery Firing 129

Chapter 13 HR in Toxic Organizations-Pouring Gasoline on the Fire? 143

Chapter 14 Peat and Repeat 153

Chapter 15 Fireproofing Your Career 167

Chapter 16 Fire Drills 175

Chapter 17 Torched 179

Chapter 18 Firewatching-Tips, Tools, and Tactics for Avoiding the Toxic Workplace 195

Chapter 19 Smoke Detectors and Whistleblowers 201

Chapter 20 Fireproofing Your Company's Future 207

Chapter 21 Rising from the Ashes 217

Bonus Chapter Fireproofing a Volunteer Organization or Membership Organization's Culture 227

Endnotes 237

Bibliography 247

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