How to Work Like a Cat: Attn Media

by Karen Wormald

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KAREN WORMALD

Press Release • About Karen Wormald

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2008 is the Year of the Rat,
But Cats Have the Upper Paw
In Corporate America

Richmond, VA – A silly business parable set in a rodent maze became a bestseller thanks to bad managers who seized on the notion that the workplace should be baffling, ever-shifting territory. Employees, who were already working like dogs, now find themselves burdened with hunting for the ever-elusive “cheese.”

Conversely, "working like a CAT" is a movement that’s restoring self-respect and dignity in cubicles everywhere. Stressed-out workers are learning how to keep their cool in trying times and “walk with confidence through a dog-eat-dog world.”

Author Karen Wormald was inspired to write How to Work Like a CAT after abandoning Corporate America in 2002 to pursue her dream of working at home in her bunny slippers. Her three cats soon taught her that it’s OK to take a mini-vacation every day – it’s called a catnap.

Wormald drew on years of experience managing mousy subordinates, being dogged by unreasonable superiors, and getting ratted out by unscrupulous co-workers to develop a distinctly feline approach to getting ahead while keeping your sanity. “I used to get into a lot of pointless catfights because I wasn’t finicky enough about picking my battles. But not any more,” she says.

People who work like a cat never worry that they don’t measure up. They dare to be different and go out on a limb. Managers who expect dog-like devotion may find this unsettling but, in the long run, the feline approach fosters innovation and moves companies forward.

Wormald adds, “There’s no reason for anyone to feel like a helpless rodent trapped in a maze when you can work like a cat.”

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How to Work Like a CAT is published by
Willow Creek Press
PO Box 147, Minocqua, WI 54548
(800-850-9453) and is available
at retail bookstores, www.willowcreekpress.com, www.amazon.com, and other online booksellers.

About Karen Wormald

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More than 20 years in Corporate America taught Karen Wormald where the cliché, “Nice guys finish last,” came from. Offices are menageries where anyone who bucks the status quo gets belittled, intimidated, separated from the herd and, ultimately, killed off. How work gets done amidst the carnage is anybody’s guess.

In 2002, Karen launched Kew Publications as a freelance business writer and editor. She works at home in her bunny slippers with her three cats. Clients still provide her with occasional peeks at bad management and petty office politics, but she now enjoys the turmoil from the outside looking in, like a visitor at the zoo.

Her current co-workers, Fred, Yul, and Adele, believe, “Everything’s better with fur,” including all the office equipment they love to shed on. They have adapted to 24/7 contact with Karen by becoming sophisticated communicators, and Karen takes more catnaps.

Their workplace wisdom first appeared in Karen’s 2005 column, “Around the Watercooler,” in Office Solutions magazine. It received first place honors from the Virginia Press Women for personal essays.

Karen is the author of Mastering English Skills for Word Processing (Arco Publishing, New York, 1983). In addition to Office Solutions, she’s a columnist for Practice Manager and contributing editor to PC Solutions. Her work has also appeared in Cats, Cruise Travel, Fifty Plus, Intele-Card News, The Gregg Reference Manual, and at AbsoluteWrite.com and OnlineOrganizing.com.

Born in Lawrence, Mass., Karen has been living with cats since she was 14. Her business background includes a degree in human resources and over two decades in the trenches in management, marketing support, training, and technical writing. She now lives in Virginia.