204: How to Survive the Jerks at Work with Robert Sutton

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Robert Sutton shares his expertise on confronting, coping with, and forgiving the jerks at work. You'll Learn: Internal mind tricks to help you cope with jerks How to use The Benjamin Franklin Effect to win over jerks How and when to fight back About Robert: Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He co-founded the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (“the d school”). He is a Fellow at IDEO, Senior Scientist at Gallup, and an advisor to McKinsey & Company. Sutton studies organizational change, leadership, innovation, and workplace dynamics. He has published over 150 articles and chapters and written seven books. Sutton’s latest book is The “Jerk”hole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.
0:17.0	Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 204 with Bob Sutton.
0:25.6	Bob is one of the world's foremost authorities on jerkholes.
0:31.6	We are relabeling the naughty word just for the sake of our iTunes
0:39.0	clean rating, but he wrote the No Jerkhole rule and the now jerk hole survival guide.
0:45.6	So it's great stuff and I think if you can relate to having worked with some folks who are not so
0:50.1	kind, this is a key episode for you.
0:53.4	So you'll walk away learning one,
0:55.2	internal mind tricks to help you cope with jerks.
0:57.8	Two, how to use the Benjamin Franklin effect
1:00.3	to win over jerks.
1:01.9	And three, how and when to fight back so if you'd like to check out the
1:05.5	show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we're referencing here
1:09.0	that's on over at awesome at your job. dot com slash F 204.
1:13.6	That's the letters EP and the numerals 204.
1:18.6	Now here's Bob's story.
1:20.2	Robert Sutton is a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University.
1:24.4	He co-founded the Stanford Technology Ventures program and the Haso-Plattner Institute of Design
1:29.7	known as the D School. He's a fellow at IDEO, a senior scientist to Gallup, and an advisor to
1:35.1	McKinsey and Company. Sutton Studies organizational change, leadership,
1:38.8	innovation, and workplace dynamics. He has published over 150 articles and chapters and written seven books.
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