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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
Written by Robert I. Sutton
Narrated by Robert I. Sutton
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The New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule reads his guide on how to preserve civility, sanity, and success when facing a business world full of difficult people.
Since The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has been asked, in a thousand different ways, the best way to deal with an asshole. This new guide presents Sutton’s signature prescriptive advice for everyone who is feeling oppressed, demeaned, or disrespected by people who treat them badly.
Drawing on a trove of real-life stories from people dealing with implacable jerks in every kind of setting, Sutton delivers a highly effective, methodical game plan, starting with a diagnosis: Exactly what kind of asshole are you dealing with? From there, Sutton provides thoughtful, field-tested strategies aimed at specific asshole-deflecting goals—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, and countering their negative influence. He even teaches you how to look inward to stifle your own jackass.
Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide helps you develop a robust new outlook that can preserve the sanity of your workplace and personal life, and stop all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.
Since The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has been asked, in a thousand different ways, the best way to deal with an asshole. This new guide presents Sutton’s signature prescriptive advice for everyone who is feeling oppressed, demeaned, or disrespected by people who treat them badly.
Drawing on a trove of real-life stories from people dealing with implacable jerks in every kind of setting, Sutton delivers a highly effective, methodical game plan, starting with a diagnosis: Exactly what kind of asshole are you dealing with? From there, Sutton provides thoughtful, field-tested strategies aimed at specific asshole-deflecting goals—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, and countering their negative influence. He even teaches you how to look inward to stifle your own jackass.
Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide helps you develop a robust new outlook that can preserve the sanity of your workplace and personal life, and stop all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.
Author
Robert I. Sutton
Robert I. Sutton is professor of management science and engineering at the Stanford University School of Engineering, where he is the former codirector of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. Sutton is the author of The No Asshole Rule and coauthor of The Knowing-Doing Gap and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To the point. Real life examples. Loved the direction of the book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it! I believe both The No Asshole Rule and Survival Guide should be mandatory read for ALL supervisors, managers and employees. We all can be Assholes and the advice and guidance in these books are needed to help keep us in check. Thank you!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes, full of good advice - note the warnings about possible backfires!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In "The Asshole Survival Guide" (his followup to "The No Asshole Rule"), Robert Sutton gives some cautionary advice to those suffering through daily contact with what everyone recognizes as an "asshole" or two. We've all been there, and we definitely know one when we see one (you know who you are J. Colglazier and J. Wilson), but how to deal with one successfully is a whole other thing.Sutton's advice comes with the warning that not every survival tactic will work, and that some of them are likely to make things even worse than they were before they were used. Thankfully, he divides the tactics into two basic groups, the dangerously stupid ones, and the ones that have a pretty good chance of making things better, so it's up to you.