Bob Sutton: ...how to deal with assholes

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is Bob Sutton, the New York Times best-selling author of "The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt". He is also Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. His website is https://www.bobsutton.net/

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0:00.0	Because the player's going to play, play, play, play, and I hate it's going to hate, hate, hey,
0:05.4	hey, baby.
0:06.7	I'm just going to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
0:10.1	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:12.2	I'm Jan Black.
0:13.2	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.7	Our guest on the line right now is best-selling author Bob Sutton, Professor of Management, Science
0:20.2	and Engineering, and Professor of Organizational
0:22.9	Behavior at Stanford University. His latest book is called The Asshole Survival Guide,
0:29.0	How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt.
0:32.2	Professor, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us about why you wrote this book?
0:37.2	And also, can you define an
0:39.4	asshole? I mean, I think we may know, but what is your definition? I'll start with the
0:48.2	definition, and then I'll back up. I love your bluntness. So to me, I tend to focus especially on how that difficult person makes us feel.
0:59.4	And so to me, the way I would define an asshole is somebody who leaves us feeling demean,
1:04.9	de-energized, disrespected.
1:07.4	And an important distinction is whether there's just somebody who does that sometime, I call that
1:12.1	a temper asshole versus somebody who does it to you repeatedly, and I call that person a certified
1:18.1	asshole. So that's my basic definition. Well, what is it about the workplace that tends to bring
1:25.5	out the asshole in a lot of people.
1:33.1	Well, in some ways, if you were going to design a system to bring it out, the workplace or possibly families, by the way, which I tend to stay away from, might be among the worst.
1:37.7	So when you have power differences, that's one of the first things that leads people
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