THE ASSHOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE

From the internationally bestselling author Robert Sutton comes a follow up to his hugely successful The No Asshole Rule, in response to all of the questions he’s received daily for the past ten years.

While they are often found at work, people who try to treat us like dirt can be found everywhere, as we all know.Surrounded as we are with workplace “bossholes” and political creeps of every stripe, identifying and managing the many personalities in our life and work can be a struggle. Written with great wit and candor, but also immensely scholarly,THE ASSHOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE gives the reader the many tools required to survive the myriad assholes we simply can’t escape.

Sutton outlines immediately applicable management tips and techniques, like the asshole avoidance technique, the asshole audit, mind tricks, removal tools, and repellents, the ARSE (a self exam), and the essential “Minimum Viable Effort,” as inspired by Eric Ries’sMVP(minimum viable product) in The Lean Start Up.

The tenth anniversary of The No Asshole Rule’s initial publication is next year in 2017, so the plan is to publish sometime next year. It will be a short book (50k words) that is written to be helpful, funny, empathic, and accessible to all.
Robert Sutton is an organizational psychologist by training and one of the leading management experts in the US. He is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and co-founder of the d.School. He’s the author of several bestselling books including The No Asshole Rule and most Good Boss, Bad Boss. You can find him here. http://bobsutton.typepad.com/.