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

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't | Robert I. Sutton | Merry Christmas to the CEO!

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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 107 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller. It won a Quill Award for the top business book of 2007, and was recently chosen as one of audible.com's top picks as well.

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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Merry Christmas to the CEO!

I wanted to buy a copy of this book for our CEO after I read it. Our rumor mill states that 80% of the CEO's time is spent on problems caused by 20% of the staff with "behavioral" issues. No wonder. He either ignores it or gives the individual in question a gentle, diplomatic "talkin' to". There is a lot of lip service given to civility at the workplace, but there is no significant retribution for poor behavior. Good talent votes with their feet and takes their skills somewhere else. Anger management doesn't work, but this book will tell you what does work. Anti-bullying legislation is slowly winding its way through the states, such that corporations won't be able to ignore abused workers too much longer. This book addresses the business owners, senior management and harassed workers as to what to do about mean folks in the workplace. It is replete with scientific articles to prove what works--and what doesn't work to address bullying in the workplace. This is a definite resource book to have on hand in your own personal and professional library. And if you're a CEO, expect this book to land on your desk at least once this coming Christmas, right along with Laura Crawshaw's "Taming the Abrasive Manager".

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Right On The Money!

Bob Sutton has done the world a favor in calling out what people deal with daily in organizations. He did a superb job illustrating the destructive nature of these jerks in the workplace and substantiating it with solid facts. I have almost 30 years in the organization development and training profession and my single greatest source of consternation is having to listen to employees who report to an A hole. In fact, the only edit I would make to that word is to add 'gaping' in front of it! I suggested in an email to Dr. Sutton that he put a mirror on every page of the next book on this subject (if there is one) so the A hole reading it doesn't think he's talking about someone else. Don't forget about the ARSE on his site. The only other suggestion I made to Dr. Sutton is to contact Dave Marcum and Steve Smith and sell The No A Hole Rule and Egonomics as a boxed set! Great job on both books by these authors. It's about time someone in our profession raised the stakes and called it out.

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Great read

Really helped me deal with a flaming idiot - this book is now permanently on display in my office!

Average

Nutshell review - The author explains how this book started as an article and truly the basic concept really doesn't require an entire book. Far too much case-study page-filler. The title is an attention grabber but the content is enough for an article.

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