The Asshole Survival Guide, Robert I. Sutton
The Asshole Survival Guide, Robert I. Sutton
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The Asshole Survival Guide
How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

Author: Robert I. Sutton

Narrator: Robert I. Sutton

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2017


Synopsis

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, or disrespected by people who treat them badly.

Drawing on a trove of real-life stories from people dealing with implacable jerks in every kind of setting, Sutton delivers a highly effective, methodical game plan, starting with a diagnosis: Exactly what kind of asshole are you dealing with? From there, Sutton provides thoughtful, field-tested strategies aimed at specific asshole-deflecting goals—avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, and countering their negative influence. He even teaches you how to look inward to stifle your own jackass.

Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide helps you develop a robust new outlook that can preserve the sanity of your workplace and personal life, and stop all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

About Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton is professor of management science and engineering at the Stanford University School of Engineering, where he is the former codirector of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization. Sutton is the author of The No Asshole Rule and coauthor of The Knowing-Doing Gap and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daisy on May 22, 2022

Half a decade ago I was working in a job that was growing increasingly toxic. All members of staff were demotivated and spoke frequently of looking to leave, even those who had been there for many years had reached the end of the line. We were overworked, under-appreciated and all feeling burned out......more

Goodreads review by David on July 04, 2018

I didn't read this for its 'self-help' aspect. A friend mentioned she was reading it and I checked it out. Mainly because... The Thing who is daily hellbent on bringing this country to its knees has now given license to the (what seems like) millions of assholes who, before this 'administration', di......more

Goodreads review by Summer on December 26, 2018

Nothing you didn't already know but I liked reading it at work because I imagined people seeing the cover and wondering if I was reading about them.......more

Goodreads review by Tariq on October 27, 2017

Assholes are not only omniscient but also omnipresent, which makes dealing with them or around them a major challenge in our daily lives. Assholes on their own or assholes in a group can create an asshole environment which is obviously a lot more dangerous. The book recommends staying away but if we......more

Goodreads review by Sumit on July 02, 2018

This book was reasonably interesting, but not all I had hoped it would be. It does provide a wide catalogue of asshole types and tests to determine whether someone else (or you) is the asshole, but its coping strategies are mostly obvious and more folk psychology peppered with the occasional study t......more