375: Bob Sutton | The A-hole Survival Guide
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Bob Sutton (@work_matters) is a Stanford Business School professor and author of New York Times bestseller The No Asshole Rule and, most recently, The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt.
What We Discuss with Bob Sutton:- What is an a-hole, and why do they seem to be everywhere?
- Why a-holes do not finish first.
- What to do if you’re forced to work with an a-hole.
- How to spot the red flags that help you avoid dealing with a-holes in the first place — or know when it’s time to quit the a-holes who are already in your life.
- How to tell if maybe you’re the a-hole.
- And much more...
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| 0:02.7 | When people treat others like dirt, they're less productive, they make more errors, they're less creative, |
| 0:07.2 | they tend to quit, they're less willing to go the extra mile. |
| 0:10.2 | Sometimes it might help the jerk to get ahead on the whole, they're doing all sorts of damage. |
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| 1:24.9 | On this episode, it's one from the vault. We're talking with my friend Bob Sutton, |
| 1:28.4 | author of the No Asshole Rule. He's got another book, The Asshole Survivor Guide, and you cannot |
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