It's Friday again, and we all know what that means: time for Friday Favorites! Pamela Slim of Escape from Cubicle Nation has two big pieces of news. Guy Kawasaki of How to Change the World gives us The Asshole Rating

I can usually keep it together under pressure at the office but thank God I have a group of girlfriends I can go out with and we can 'come out of our shells' together over a few drinks.

As I rushed at the last minute to find all the things I needed to take with me, I became furious at having to leave earlier than planned and when I went out into the street, I was really nuts. And any kind of aggressive action seemed to make sense.

By the time I arrived at my destination, however, not all that late, I had calmed down and soon I was in a good mood — which made the block of hysteria stand out all the more clearly.

We used humor, and often horrible humor at that. Of course we saved this bad humor for the fire house.

I know that during extremely stressful situations we just relied on the fact that we trusted each other and knew our business. Often we would simply remove the most stressed out person from the situation by giving them a small (yet significant- that's the key) task that contributed to the whole case yet didn't effect the true life or death situation we faced.

It may sound weird but today I often look at stressful office situations and say "As long as we all have a pulse who cares?" "Let's just work through the situation and if someone drops, then we worry!"

Re "If you work with someone who is a terror under stress, pretend you’re a hairdresser, and look for the underlying cause…"

A great recommendation for Plan A. Plan B? Stick 'em under the dryer.

On a more general note: your story-telling skills just get better and better. When's the next book coming out? When are you going to branch out and do a children's book or a fiction book? (I suppose that would be even less "conservative" or monochromatic than your hair, though. ;)

Katelyn