Advantages of leading people you personally do not like. Leading people who are not particularly likable to you. The ultimate challenge of leadership requires: understanding human nature, a grasp of power dynamics, communication strategies, and conflict management. This is presented in a humorous and entertaining manner in this book.

About the work
1. "Leadershit happens" (introductory chapter: How personal dislikes, underlying tensions, and simmering conflicts poison the work environment. Why it’s not good when things get too "human" and everyone is nice to each other. Your responsibility as a leader. Why you need professionalism and distance. How your behavior influences how others interact with each other.)
2. What lies behind my dislike? (The first step to professionally dealing with negative attitudes: acknowledging your own dislike and exploring it further.)
3. Why do some employees not like me? (Reasons why someone may not get along with you; personality styles, lack of recognition, cultural biases, professional reasons. How should you respond?)
4. Understanding people: How do the people you dislike think? (Power players, narcissists, envious individuals, phobics and paranoids, why quarrelsome troublemakers see themselves as peaceful, the anatomy of stubbornness, character types and unsympathetic individuals.)
5. Mechanisms of power (How to exert influence beyond personal likability; how to deal with reactance? Why it can sometimes be useful to ask for a favor that is not fulfilled. How leaders relinquish and gain power; the inevitable status games; speaking plainly and "Basic Talk.")
6. What to do in case of misconduct? (When employees treat you condescendingly, provoke you, do not follow your instructions, create a bad atmosphere - how should you react in such critical situations?)
7. Leadership tool feedback: (How to give and receive feedback, especially when dealing with people you do not like.).