The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work."What an asshole!"How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to de...

“This book is a contemporary classic—a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.”—Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and DriveHow to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole RuleAs entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival G...

The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place."Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency...

**Wall Street Journal Bestseller"The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times"One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and MailBestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: how to scale up farther, faster, and more effectively as an organization grows.**Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the ...

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, ...

**Wall Street Journal Bestseller"The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times"One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and MailBestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: how to scale up farther, faster, and more effectively as an organization grows.**Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the ...

**After the smashing succes of The No Asshole Rule, in which he tackled corporate bullying, Dr. Bob Sutton now asks: how does one become a great boss ... and what do you do if you work for a lousy one?"This book is the personal coach that every boss deserves: warm, smart, and freakishly good at translating scientific reserach into practical tips that will help keep you at the top of your game." ―Chip & Dan Heath, authors of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is H...

A breakthrough in management thinking, “weird ideas” can help every organization achieve a balance between sustaining performance and fostering new ideas. To succeed, you need to be both conventional and counterintuitive.Creativity, new ideas, innovation—in any age they are keys to success. Yet, as Stanford professor Robert Sutton explains, the standard rules of business behavior and management are precisely the opposite of what it takes to build an innovative comp...

**This program features a bonus conversation between the authors.The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.** Find out why Adam Grant says, "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place."Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly usef...

A breakthrough in management thinking, ‘weird ideas’ can help every organization achieve a balance between sustaining performance and fostering new ideas. To succeed, you need to be both conventional and weird. • Hire misfits • Pursue the impractical • Find happy people and encourage them to fight • Reward failure but punish inaction • Forget your own successes These and other counterintuitive strategies will unlock ideas you never knew you had.

**After the smashing succes of The No Asshole Rule, in which he tackled corporate bullying, Dr. Bob Sutton now asks: how does one become a great boss ... and what do you do if you work for a lousy one?"This book is the personal coach that every boss deserves: warm, smart, and freakishly good at translating scientific reserach into practical tips that will help keep you at the top of your game." ―Chip & Dan Heath, authors of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is H...

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work."What an asshole!"How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to de...