The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work

I read this book in one sitting. This is the best self-help, leadership inspiring book I’ve ever read! Highly recommend and can’t wait to implement it in my life and within our company!!

The book is short, sweet and simple. Anyone can read this book. That’s the point. If planning to do a group lesson out of the chapters I suggest team building exercises and doing as the introduction says, researching the effects of positivity. This is a great book and suggest his other book The Energy Bus.

Great book with solid pointers. Enjoyable for those like myself that don’t love to read but enjoy learning and improving the work environment.

Actually a kind of fun read and I found some solid insights

At first glance I was hoping that this was a much deeper book, but upon reading it, I realized that it's a simple one with a simplified tactic. This book tells a story and progresses through the notion of gratitude and complaining in a very simplistic, and easy to digest manner. In fact, the font size is big, the story is bare bones, but the principles are spot on, and really well put together. I finished the book in a day, but the ideas kept with me, as I'm in a job that I find less than stellar. It's helping me put away the complaints and really helping me see the bright side of certain arenas of work. I won't say this is an encyclopedia, because it's not, but rather it's a simplified formula, a parable of sorts with some no-nonsense business advice for anyone in any job.

Title: The No Complaining RuleAuthor: Jon GordonThis book is a story about a woman named Hope that was negative about her job, her family, her relationships, and her future. She goes to a doctor visit after a very rough work day and has to have tests. At the doctor she has a conversation about the “No Complaining Rule” from the nurse.The book takes off from there explaining what the No Complaining Rule is and what it is not.The basics behind the story are good, the story just helps to tell it without making it read like a text book with this as a recommendation.Overall the story isn’t that good, BUT the no complaining rule is. I bought it because of some negative circumstances at work and wanted to restructure my thoughts and take back how I felt about something. I feel like the book is just the start of the no complaining rule. You have to do it, daily. And when you do complain, make sure to stop and say “what if”… what if the XYZ thing isn’t bad, but it’s for the better or it’s for good.This book is straight to the point, can be read in a few hours and is good for either work or personal life negativity issues.I wouldn’t say this is the best book by Jon Gordon but it is worth the read. I would get it from the library, or buy it the ebook on kindle, a hard copy isn’t necessary.This is a short review for a short book.Overall, the book was: I give the book 3 stars out of 5.

Ineffective middle managers with limited time to read should love this brief fairy tale where the heroine, her coworkers, and her family learn an important lesson...The best way to deal with real problems, at work and at home… is to… NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. Actively suppress all mention of them. Pretend as if they don’t exist. Make it a capital offense at work to bring them up, fire unrepentant complainers, and retain toxic managers. That is the gist of this book.The dimmest of managers should be able to see where this approach will take you:#1 You will never hear any complaints anymore, which is what you wanted. And you’ll never have to do the hard work of addressing real problems if there are none. But looking the other way has never made anything disappear. So your next problem will be…#2 After seeing your deep and profound lack of concern about employee concerns, talent that has options will leave, and those who do not will stay and act happy because they need the job. Note to new managers: when your people are convinced that you don’t care about them, you have entered a morale death spiral that may not be recoverable.I have worked for more than one organization that views its employees as the problem rather than a potential solution, and it does not end well. If you are often blindsided by the departure of top performers and the ones who remain are just filling seats, this may be your problem.Nobody enjoys being around employees who are constantly negative, but even they deserve the dignity of their concerns being addressed. Crushing the very mention of problems while backing it with the threat of termination is about as wrongheaded as you can get.The stupidest person on the payroll can instinctively tell if you really take care of your people or if you are just faking it. A draconian policy of forced happiness will not get you there.Two stars for lots of big easy to read words, negative stars for encouraging willful and dangerous ignorance on the part of management.

A powerful lesson that we should all try to incorporate into our lives, unfortunately it is also one of the most difficult things to do in our modern society. Our society is set up to complain about every little thing and sometimes we do not even realize that we are complaining as it has become part of gathering together with friends or just having a normal conversation with someone at a coffee shop. Should we strive to not complain? Yes. Is it a practical book to follow and apply into your life? No. It is like exercise you know you should do it almost every day, but then you realize life does not allow for it to happen as often as you like. Overall it is a good read with a very good positive message. I do believe that students in school would benefit greatly from this book and maybe taught as part of a curriculum.

Cannot believe I wasted money on this pointless, cheesy childish book. Don’t do it

Terrible cheesy story dont waste your money

Book is written as a story that’s terribly predictable where the character is in shambles, discovers this ‘technique’ and turns their life and company around. The book is cheesy and dreadfully predictable. I do think the simple presentation of ideas through the story helps provide perspective and get the point across clearly such as the importance of workplace culture and how action-based solutions are beneficial.

It's pretty hard to write a negative review after reading about the importance of being positive.I felt this book had a great message and came away with some lessons learnt.Perhaps unnecessary long for the message it was getting accross, but I'm glad I read this book.I recommend it, it will make you think about what sought of person you may be.This practice woud be beneficial in alot of companies today.

Excellent book with lots of great tips for building a positive culture at work or at home. Highly recommended.