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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | This meticulously researched book, which grew from a much buzzed-about article in the Harvard Business Review, puts into plain language an undeniable fact: the modern workplace is beset with assholes. Sutton (Weird Ideas that Work), a professor of management science at Stanford University, argues that assholesâthose who deliberately make co-workers feel bad about themselves and who focus their aggression on the less powerfulâpoison the work environment, decrease productivity, induce qualified employees to quit and therefore are detrimental to businesses, regardless of their individual effectiveness. He also makes the solution plain: they have to go. Direct and punchy, Sutton uses accessible language and a bevy of examples to make his case, providing tests to determine if you are an asshole (and if so, advice for how to self-correct), a how-to guide to surviving environments where assholes freely roam and a carefully calibrated measure, the "Total Cost of Assholes," by which corporations can assess the damage. Although occasionally campy and glib, Sutton's work is sure to generate discussions at watercoolers around the country and deserves influence in corporate hiring and firing strategies.
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1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great read Jun 28, 2008
Really helped me deal with a flaming idiot - this book is now permanently on display in my office!
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Average Jun 14, 2008
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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Right On The Money! Jun 12, 2008
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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Merry Christmas to the CEO! May 17, 2008
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".
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great advice for dealing with jerks in the workplace May 10, 2008
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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