The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

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In a landmark article published in the esteemed Harvard Business Review, Stanford University professor Robert I Sutton addressed a taboo topic that affects every workplace employees who are insensitive to their colleagues, corporate bullies, bosses who just don t get it, the kind of people who make you exclaim in exasperation, What an asshole Now, in a definitive book that addresses this growing problem, Sutton shows you how you can work with unsavory people without becoming one of them yourself. New Read [ The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't ] By [ Robert I. Sutton ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I bought this because I thought I worked with assholes Well that, and a few others had enjoyed reading it I discovered that I work with garden variety assholes, not certified flaming assholes though I have in the past Note that the author is an academic and wanted to enforce the no asshole rule in his own department This doesn t just apply to corporate settings.The real ...What a disappointment This book should have written itself who can t write a good book about assholes The world is full of them, and Sutton s biggest problem should have been trying to sift through an inexhaustable supply of good stuff and funny bits Instead we get a boring, humorless collection of basic psychology principles, statistics, and common sense Entire pages are devoted to mindless recitations of research findings and statistics The anecdotes are boring and focus around a very sh What a disappointment This book should have written itself who can t write a good book about assholes The world is full of them, and Sutton s biggest problem should have been trying to sift through an inexhaustable supp...I ve referenced this before but will again Long ago, I read a particularly stupid chick lit book which would be entirely unmemorable except for one line that stayed with me Our heroine, contemplating life, muses about the following question Do jerks look in the mirror and know they re jerks This question has come up for me a lot in general, and was particularly relevant as I read this book I sought this book out after reading this article forwarded by my cousin, which I found insightful I ve referenced this before but will again Long ago, I read a particularly stupid chick lit book which would be entirely unmemorable except for one line that stayed with me Our heroine, contemplating life, muses about the following question Do jerks look in the mirror and know they re jerks This question has come up for me a lot in general, and was particularly relevant as I read this book I sought this book out after reading this article forwarded by my cousin, which I found insightful and validating The book, unfortunately, though entertaining and insightful at times, was quite flawed.First off, for a book about, well, you know, jerks, it was actually kind of dry and repetitive Sure, I was glad the author chose to include research rather than simply shooting his mouth off about the topic as all of us are capable of doing, but the details of the studies he invoked did ...Perhaps this information was a littlerelevant and a lot less obvious when the book was written copywright is 2007 But I found most of the information to be quite dry It s mostly common sense, in my opinion Assholes are assholes in or out of the workplace And no matter how you catagorize them, they have an impact on everyone around them if you re a human being and NOT an asshole, I m pretty sure you ve experienced this heck, I m certain most assholes have experienced another of th Perhaps this information was a littlerelevant and a lot less obvious when the book was written copywright is 2007 But I found most of the information to be quite dry It s mostly common sense, in my opinion Assholes are assholes in or out of the workplace And no matter how you catagorize them, they have an impact on everyone around them if you re a human being and NOT an asshole, I m pretty sure you ve experienced this heck, I m certain most assholes have experienced another of thier kind at some point.There were some fun little ancedotes provided It s always interesting to read about bigshots acting badly sort of like watching TMZ when a star throws a tantrum makes the rest of us normal folks feel better about ourselves There were some funny at least I found it humourous tips on how NOT to be an asshole as well as some sort of useful advice on managing them in the workplace.This would be a good read for People Managers with no common sense but the ones who are usually a problem, probably wouldn t b...This book seriously rubbed me the wrong way The author does a little initial work useful in being precise about what he means by assholes and offers the rather trivial conclusion that we shouldn t be one, hire them or tolerate them The rest amounts to foot stomping at best and bewilderment at worst Assholes give people the silent treatment but in response we should talk to them as little as possible Retaliatory behavior as bad or worse than the initial asshole behavior is advocated t This book seriously rubbed me the wrong way The author does a little initial work useful in being precise about what he means by assholes and offers the rather trivial conclusion that we shouldn t be one, hire them or tolerate them The rest amounts to foot stomping at best and bewilderment at worst Assholes give people the silent treatment but in response we should talk to them as little as possible Retaliatory behavior as bad or worse than the initial asshole behavior is advocated throughout Can you imagine celebrating bus driver trainers telling new drivers they get three accidents per year without disciplinary action, so to save them up and never have accidental accidents so that they can punish the real asshole drivers they encounter How about the desirability of kee...Anyone living the corporate life should read this book It s as much about not becoming an asshole yourself as dealing with the ones around you, which is important because the best of us can be reduced to bad behaviour in the wrong environment.But I know you really just want the quick story, how do you survive the assholes at work my choice bits of advice are pick your workplace carefully, try to not to join in the first place if the assholes rule if you got it wrong, ge Anyone living the corporate life should read this book It s as much about not becoming an asshole yourself as dealing with the ones around you, which is important because the best of us can be reduced to bad behaviour in the wrong environment.But I know you really just want the quick story, how do you survive the assholes at work my choice bits of advice are pick your workplace carefully, try to not to join in the first place if the assholes rule if you got it wrong, get out as soon as you canIf you are stuck, for a short or long time in a workplace where the a...From this book, I learned how to identify a hole behavior in others and in myself Sutton s book is a remarkable and frank exploration of how a hole behavior can destroy organization, and a reminder that such behavior should not be tolerated anywhe...5 Goodreads Stars Have you ever worked at a place where a person or group of people sucked the life out of you, bullied you, or tormented you Have you ever had a colleague corner you, explode at a meeting, or yell at other employees If so, Dr Robert Sutton s The No Asshole Rule Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn t provides some solid advice on how to manage workplace bullies, or, in his own words, assholes This book is bursting with data on how assholeSutton s 5 Goodreads Stars Have you ever worked at a place where a person or group of people sucked the life out of you, bullied you, or tormented you Have you ever had a colleague corner you, explode at a meeting, or yell at other employees If so, Dr Robert Sutton s The No Asshole Rule Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn t provides some solid advice on how to manage workplace bullies, or, in his own words, assholes This book is bursting with data on how assholes affect a workplace s climate and employees productivity As Dr Sutton puts it,when people act like assholes, the whole group suffersFor anyone who has be...If the title really offends you, the book will only get worse With that said, we ve all worked with people that are jerks This book gives some insights into how to deal with them Miscellaneous notes Dirty dozen personal insults invading one s personal territory uninvited physical contact threats and intimidation verbal, non verbal sarcastic jokes, teasing withering email flames status slaps public shaming rude interr If the title really offends you, the book will on...I heard about The No Asshole Rule in a technical conference talk about building out an engineering team The notion of the book struck me as simultaneously obvious and groundbreaking The basic premise is this we all know that it sucks to work with assholes, so let s not beat around the bush and actually formulate an official company policy to not hire assholes.It made me think back to so many interviews I ve done with various candidates over the years, and the pow wow meetings af I heard about The No Asshole Rule in a technical conference talk about building out an engineering team The notion of the book struck me as simultaneously obvious and groundbreaking The basic premise is this we all know that it sucks to work with assholes, so let s not beat around the bush and actually formulate an official company policy to not hire assholes.It made me think back to so many interviews I ve done with various candidates over the years, and the pow wow meetings after where we...

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
  • English
  • 01 January 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 210 pages
  • 0446526568
  • Robert I. Sutton
  • The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't