According to "The No Asshole Rule," jerks don't just sour the workplace environment -- they also cost your company money. Stanford professor and author Robert Sutton shows you how to spot an asshole, at the office or within yourself. He then walks you through the necessary steps to make your...
There's a ton of literature out there on the topic of business leadership, but Robert Sutton is in a field of his own. The Professor at Stanford University's Management Science and Engineering department has written a volume of influential work on topics ranging from data-driven decisioning to his latest...
Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, has built a small industry around telling business people not to be assholes. You can check him out explaining the basic idea of his book, "The No Asshole Rule," in this BNET Book Briefing: working with rude, self-obsessed people isn't just aggravating, it's a drain on...
If you can't escape the office bully, a recent Wall Street Journal article offers some ways to cope, courtesy of Robert Sutton, author of book-of-the-moment The No Asshole Rule. The article includes some practical, real-world advice, such as, "Don't blame yourself." Instead, Sutton recommends reminding yourself that you...
David Leonhardt in the New York Times wrote about his favorite economics book of the year in No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions. In what he calls "a very good year" for books on economics, he named Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated tops, and his column tells why. It...
The Find: If you really want to motivate yourself and your company to root out jerks and their productivity and creativity sucking behavior, one business guru suggest you calculate your TCJ: total cost of jerks. The Source: An article entitled "Building the Civilized Workplace" by No Asshole...
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Newspapers aren't famous for their knowledge of management. But Jill Geisler, the management guru at the Poynter Institute, a news industry think tank and training ground, has put together a not-bad list of management books. For improving as a manager: "Understanding and Changing...
The latest issue of ChangeThis, the online journal that "The No Asshole Rule" author Bob Sutton says looks "more interesting than the typical Harvard Business Review," trains its wide lens on the subject of viral marketing, with a piece by David Meerman Scott. "The New Rules of...
The find: An executive training program at Stanford claims executives can benefit from being taught to tinker like designers. The source: Work Matters, the blog of Bob Sutton, Stanford business school and author of "The No Asshole Rule" and other books. The takeaway: First...
A new poll released by the Employment Law Alliance last week found that 45 percent of American workers say that they've worked in an abusive workplace. And surprise, surprise, most of the complaints are about bosses and managers. Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule," says that companies that allow...
Any company that's been known to violate what Stanford business professor Bob Sutton infamously calls The No Asshole Rule -- if it hasn't already been held up to shame in his best-selling book of the same name -- can expect to be shamed on a regular basis in...
The Weird Rules of CreativityUnexpected Consequences: BallardBallard may not be the best example of success. It just sold its automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler and Ford, including all of the IP, test equipment and inventory with transfer of the employees and leaving development to Daimler and Ford at,...
Why CEOs lack some critical “soft” skills and don’t realize it. When given a list of a dozen words to describe their CEO, only one in five employees picked “caring” or “warm.” (Small wonder that these words were picked twice...
Dream jobs quickly become crummy jobs when companies are struggling to stay afloat. Here are five telltale signs that recession is affecting your job. Crummy Factor #1: Budget Ax Severs Emotional Ties Day-to-Day Impact: Loyalty goes by the wayside. When employees are...
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