Australian Financial Review, 11 May 2001 p. 1,80
The tortoise, the bulldozer, the back stabber and glory seeker, every office has at least one.
For Andrew Horsley of Horsley & Company the reason is simple, back stabbers don't like to be watched, he says.
The busybody: These people are regulars on the office gossip circuit. They can annoy colleagues in their need to know everything, particularly who is flirting with whom and who gets to have lunch with the boss. Horsley says one way of handling them is to encourage them to collaborate [on projects] with other employees so they "feel involved".
In the case of whiners Horsley says the best approach is not to take them too seriously "confine their complaints to real issues", he says.
The no-person; never collegiate, these people tend to extinguish enthusiasm in colleagues, and they procrastinate. Horsley says the best thing managers can do is encourage them to undertake incremental tasks.