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

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	The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't Robert I. Sutton Business Plus, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 113 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great advice for dealing with jerks in the workplace

I generally find business books insufferable, so I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Sutton discusses the problems of workplace "jerks." These are often high-performance employees, but he argues that they are not worth having around because of the harm they inflict on those around them. His diagnosis strikes me as exactly correct, based on my own experiences working with this type of people.

Sutton estimates that these jerks make up 15-20% of the workforce, so they're hard to avoid. In fact, I'm afraid to say that one out of every five of you reading this review fall into the category. His strategies for dealing with them are straightforward: don't hire them, get rid of them if you can, and ostracize them if you can't get rid of them so that coworkers see that the behavior is unacceptable. Sutton also recognizes that otherwise-nice people sometimes act like jerks, and he provides advice on how to catch and fix your own misbehavior.

Like most business books, this one is written at about the eighth-grade reading level and it has large print on small pages with wide margins. That's a complaint for the publisher not the author, though. Sutton has done a good job diagnosing a large, troublesome set of employees and behavior and giving us practical solutions for dealing with them. If you're suffering from one, you'll find this book very helpful.

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Refreshingly real

I had heard a lot about this book - the stellar sales, the numerous awards (here on Amazon, Quill), the intriguiing begining (the daring HBR article)- but I was still skeptical. Would it be a rant and corny or would it be grounded and informative? I have to say that the book really pleased me, and even gave pause to my somewhat cynical view of management books.
Sutton is able to leverage well respected academic research to support and clarify his vivid, fun, and instructive arguments surrounding a** in the workplace. I was able to understand the phenomenon at multiple levels, how it plays out in organizations, between colleagues, and my role as an individual. The suggestions are real, and I found that even when they concern my culpability, oddly encouraging. I now can see the reason for the excitement the book has generated.

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Good Book

Purchased it as a gift for my husband for Christmas (at his request) and ordered an extra to give to a friend. Received them in a timely manner and well packaged. Book is very informative and helpful to those who are dealing with a difficult boss or workplace stress.

Should be mandatory for employee Orientation

I purchased this book as a growing number of firms I have interviewed and interned at have this as a required item for employee training. They employ its use both as a filter at the hiring end as well as internally as part of the performance review.

They have been some of the most remarkable places to work ever. High productivity, rapid turn around, numerous unscheduled episodes of team building, and some of the most rapid bug fix repair cycles I have ever seen, along with team support outside the workplace, have been great. I highly reccomend this text

Places I have worked that do not do this tend to have reality problems and consequently endure turnover in the workplace plus bad morale. In light of this text, I can see why.

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