Expose Your Weasel!

I received an email earlier this week from a reader of the blog named Patrick. Patrick works for a company called Respond2 Communications. His boss, Tim O'Leary (CEO of Respond2 Communications) released a book and corresponding promotional website and blog earlier this week. He asked that I check the blog out and mention it to you guys if I was impressed.

I was naturally a bit skeptical, but I figured all I had to lose was a few minutes of my time. I first went over to Amazon and checked out the book. It's called Warriors, Workers, Whiners, and Weasels: The 4 Personality Types in Business and How to Manage Them to Your Advantage. I had to admit, it's a pretty catchy title so I figured I'd read on. In the description, it describes the four types:

Warriors, who confront change, see possibilities, innovate and manage to win!

Workers, who deal with the ups, downs and challenges of everyday corporate life dependably, and who can reliably implement the change and direction established by the Warriors.

Whiners, who get through life by complaining about everything they do, who profess negativism and dissatisfaction wherever they go, and blaming others for their own shortcomings.

Weasels, who lurk everywhere and threaten your career and life-goals through their own deception and insecurity and who spread these feelings quickly throughout the organization.

OK, now I'm pretty sure that we all know people who fit into one of those four categories. If you're reading this blog, I'm guessing you are a Warrior or are aspiring to be a Warrior.

After reading a bit more of the description, I was pretty sold on the whole idea so I went over to check out Tim's blog, which goes into greater detail about each of the four types. I found myself nodding my head the whole time and placing everyone I've ever worked with into one of the four categories.

Then I saw it: a link to "Expose Your Weasel." Being the perverted 23 year male old that I am, I figured the site would be more than just exposing the people you know who are weasels :).

The site has a guy on the top "exposing his weasel" (facing away from you of course). I was on the ground cracking up. The site lets you rank weasels as well as "submit a weasel" that you know to the site. How great is that? I went through and rated everyone from Barry Bonds to some girls roommatee who through up on her last night. The site is absolutely classic!

Patrick has been nice enough to send me over a copy of the book to review for you guys, so I'll let you know what I think about it when I finish it. In the meantime, go Expose Your Weasel!