If you’re feeling stressed out, overtaxed, under-appreciated, bullied, or abused because you work with a jerk, learn how to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes—today.
Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan when you find yourself working with a jerk—whether in the office, on the field, in the classroom, or just in life.
Sutton starts with diagnosis—what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with the rude, impolite, irritating, unpleasant, or just plain incompetent—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass.
Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your life, and will prevent all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.
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Add âThe A Survival Guideâ to your bookshelf. Bob Sutton knocks it out of the park. Iâm going to avoid spelling out the A word as I write this. The book is a great read. You donât need to have read the âNo A ruleâ to get value out of âThe A Survival Guide.â There are a plethora of real world examples and tips. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on âA Avoidance Techniquesâ and âMind Tricks That Protect Your Soul.â Aâs could be prevalent throughout an organization. In fact, there may be one right behind you! How you deal with these people depend on where there are and how…
If you have anyone in your life who drives you crazy, you need this book!! If I had read this book early in my career, I would be half an inch taller and a lot richer. I once had a boss who was so belittling that while I worked for him I literally shrunk half an inch. I finally got so angry that I quit, walking away from lots of stock options. We’ve all had people we work with who make us absolutely miserable. In this great book, Bob gives you lots of coping strategies. You don’t have to let anyone “make” you feel something; you get to choose your reaction,…
How to Live & Work in the Presence of Jerks With The Asshole Survival Guide, Bob Sutton cements his reputation as the savior of long-suffering employees everywhere. When he published The No Asshole Rule in 2007, he exhorted leaders and managers to create civil workplaces by setting standards for decent behavior. And serving as examples, themselves, of how to treat the human beings who spend most of their waking hours in those workplaces.Sadly, too few managers followed Suttonâs entirely sensible, research-based advice â maybe…