The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
Author(s): Robert I. Sutton
From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes
Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%, and research shows that rudeness spreads like a common cold. In The Asshole Survival Guide, Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers practical advice on identifying and tackling any kind of asshole - based on research into groups from uncivil civil servants to French bus drivers, and 8,000 emails that he has received on asshole behaviour.
With expertise and humour, he provides a cogent and methodical game-plan to fight back. First, he sets out the asshole audit, to find out what kind of asshole needs dealing with, and asshole detection strategies. Then he reveals field-tested, sometimes surprising techniques, from asshole avoidance and asshole taxes, to mind-tricks and the art of love bombing. Finally, he explains the dangers of asshole blindness - when the problem might be yours truly.
Readers will learn how to handle assholes - in the workplace and beyond - once and for all!
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 0.159
- : 01 September 2018
- : 1.4 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert I. Sutton
- : Paperback