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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
written by Robert I. Sutton
Studio : Business Plus
by Business Plus
Publisher : Business Plus
Released : 2007-02-22
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780446526562
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 108 reviews)
List Price : $22.99
Our Price : $12.59
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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. |
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Die Keinearschlochregel |
A**holes create a toxic work environment, destroying productivity. Sutton introduces the Total Cost of A**holes (TCA) metric. In the case of a salesman named Ethan, the cost was estimated at $160,000, including time spent by Ethan's manager, HR professionals, senior executives, outside counsel, as well as the costs related to high turnover of support staff.
Sutton warns not to hire wimps and polite clones. "A series of controlled experiments and field studies in organizations show that when teams engage in conflict over ideas in an atmosphere of mutual respect, they develop better ideas and perform better. For this reason, Intel requires all new employees to take "constructive confrontation class."
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Great read |
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Really helped me deal with a flaming idiot - this book is now permanently on display in my office! |
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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! |
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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! |
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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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