The Situation Handbook: Look It Up, Handle It, Move On

Your family has decided you're the one with money. A stranger's conversation is turning threatening. Someone insulted you as a joke, in front of everyone, >Every other book on handling people gives you principles - thirty of them, indexed by the author's framework. None of them let you look up the thing >This one is built the other way round. 150 numbered recipes, each a real situation and the actual words to say: several ways to say it, what to say when they push back, a line that gets you out, and a repair line for when it came out wrong. Every recipe points to four or five others, so one lookup >And it opens where a lookup book has to. The index runs to more than 800 entries, arranged by what is happening to you rather than by chapter, and it points at recipe numbers instead of page numbers. Look up "asked to co-sign," "followed on foot," "put on a performance plan" and you are on the right page >Twelve chapters cover starting cold, saying no, conflict, school, work, money, dating, family, online life, negotiation and coming back from a public failure, and one long chapter on authority, institutions and physical safety, because not everything that happens to a person is a social mishap. The heavy situations are treated as heavy: fewer clever lines, and a straight pointer to >No theory to translate under pressure. No framework to memorize first. >Look it up. Handle it. Move on.