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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt (edition 2018)

by Robert I Sutton (Author)

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"This book is a contemporary classic??a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst."??Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule


As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis??what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field??tested, evidence??based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes??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 work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

"Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource."??Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before

"At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read."??Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pr
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Title:The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
Authors:Robert I Sutton (Author)
Info:Penguin (2018), Edition: 01, 224 pages
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Yes, full of good advice - note the warnings about possible backfires! ( )
  hotblack43 | Jul 23, 2021 |
In "The Asshole Survival Guide" (his followup to "The No Asshole Rule"), Robert Sutton gives some cautionary advice to those suffering through daily contact with what everyone recognizes as an "asshole" or two. We've all been there, and we definitely know one when we see one (you know who you are J. Colglazier and J. Wilson), but how to deal with one successfully is a whole other thing.

Sutton's advice comes with the warning that not every survival tactic will work, and that some of them are likely to make things even worse than they were before they were used. Thankfully, he divides the tactics into two basic groups, the dangerously stupid ones, and the ones that have a pretty good chance of making things better, so it's up to you. ( )
1 vote SamSattler | Mar 16, 2019 |
Since writing his book about “building civilized workplaces,” The No Asshole Rule, author Robert I. Sutton was besieged with questions by readers about what they should do to deal with abusive people at work. In The Asshole Survival Guide (Houghton Mifflin, September 2017), Sutton shares strategies and tips that he developed over the years. Complete review at http://cynthiaparkhill.blogspot.com/2017/08/asshole-survival-guide-by-robert-i.h... ( )
  Cynthia_Parkhill | Nov 24, 2018 |
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Business. Nonfiction. HTML:

"This book is a contemporary classic??a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks, bullies, tyrants, and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst."??Daniel H. Pink, best-selling author of To Sell Is Human and Drive
How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic The No Asshole Rule


As entertaining as it is useful, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis??what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field??tested, evidence??based, and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes??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 work life, and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

"Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource."??Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before

"At last . . . clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful, evidence-based, and fun to read."??Robert Cialdini, best-selling author of Influence and Pr

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