The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller. It won a Quill Award for the top business book of 2007, and was recently chosen as one of audible.com's top picks as well.
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55% recommend43% neutral3% critical
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What Hacker News says
- About psychopathy and manipulative behavior at work, you can read about this here:
The rest is my own prescription of how to detect and fix the problem. We have the technology."Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work" ISBN: 978-0061147890 "The No Asshole Rule" ISBN: 978-0-446-52656-2 - If you run any part of an organization, no doubt you have read the book, or learned the hard way, "The No Asshole Rule".
- For #1, see the book "The No Asshole Rule". Does a great job at expanding on this. It happens not just with nepotism, but sometimes because management legitimately believes the employee is valuable. But you have to look at net impact on the org and not just individual impact. You can have an exceptionally talented engineer that chases everyone away due to horrendously toxic teamwork.
- "The No Asshole Rule" should be required reading for many. We shouldn't tolerate jerks.
- Assholes are bad for morale, drive good people away and generally suck the life out of people like vampires. Those you mentioned are the survivor bias anecdotal exceptions who only managed to succeed in spite of being assholes, not because of it. Everyone's replaceable, including the assholes.
See also: Robert Sutton's book, The No Asshole Rule (Stanford prof)
PS: I really do think corp culture falls in one of two main camps: those that defend civility/fairness like a family and those where employees have already mentally/emotionally disembarked, pining for warmer shores elsewhere.
- "Getting to Yes" and "Getting Past No".
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander.
"The No Asshole Rule".
"How to Lie with Statistics".
