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The Asshole Survival Guide
How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
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This book is ideal for professionals and anyone seeking effective tools to handle bullies, tyrants, and difficult personalities in business and everyday life. It suits readers looking for a thoughtful yet entertaining approach to maintaining sanity and positivity in challenging social environments.
The ultimate prescriptive handbook for preserving your own civility, sanity, and success when facing a business world full of unsavory people
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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 armour. 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 Pre-Suasion
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ISBN: 9781328511669
Publisher: Harper Business
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Harper Business
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 224
About the Author
ROBERT SUTTON is a Stanford University professor and author of six management books, including the New York Times bestsellers The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss. He is an IDEO fellow and cofounder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the Stanford Design Institute.
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