Face it. At some point in your corporate life you’re going to have to read books that you’d normally scoff at. I had a boss who made me (and everyone else in our office) read Who Moved My Cheese? We all see people reading about the Various Principles of Success for Highly Corporatized Suckers on the subway. We mock these books, we even mock those who read them. But, frankly, sometimes you have to drink the Kool-Aid. This could be one of those times.
The book is The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, and author Robert Sutton isn’t just some shmo with an opinion – he’s a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford (insert collective “ooooh” here). “I am disgusted with the norm in business and sports that if you are a really big winner, you can get away with being a creep,” he declares. Right on! We could give him a couple names of people to add to his naughty list, but instead we’ll point you in his direction – you can name the names.
For more info on el libro, read the article at the SF Chronicle:
Crusade Against the Jerk at Work
To acquire el libro directly and risk the mocking stares of fellow subway passengers, go to The No Asshole Rule at Amazon.
Conveniently, the book was made thin enough to slip under your boss’s office door. Anonymously and at night, of course.
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