The no ass hole rule

This New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller describes the damage done by demeaning bosses and co-workers to the mental and physical health of their colleagues, the ways they undermining learning and organizational effectiveness, and the often hidden financial costs of keeping the creeps on the payroll. And the book shows how to build organizations that screen-out, reform, and banish these bullies and demeaning bitches and bastards. You can read about many of the often bizarre lessons that I've learned since The No Asshole Rule appeared on my personal blog, www. Many of these lessons come from the thousands of emails I've received from people who have read and heard about the book.

But scant attention is devoted to a problem that plagues every workplace: Assholes. Sutton then uses in-depth research and analysis to show how managers can eliminate mean-spirited and unproductive behavior while positively channeling some of the virtues of assholes to generate an asshole free-and newly productive-workplace. Skip to main content. The Experience Overview of Experience. About Our Degree Programs.

Attributing failure to the habits of the CEO or some other senior executive is poor reasoning. It is not that some unsuccessful executives do not have these habits, it's just that successful ones have them, too, as do many average managers. Instead, I wanted to address the fallacy because of the larger collateral damage caused by that type of thinking.

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