Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - How to Outwit Workplace Jerks

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🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Even as adults, we still have to deal with bullies, at work and otherwise. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton has devoted his career to studying organizational behavior and dysfunction, and of late, figuring out how we all can avoid or deal with people who demean, disrespect and drain their peers. The professor of management science and engineering draws on academic research and anecdotal evidence included in his new book, "The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt."

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.7	On today's episode, we have Bob Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering
0:22.0	at Stanford University, who studies how organizations can change for the better and be more
0:26.8	innovative. He challenges executives to lead their companies with kindness and competence.
0:32.3	Bob is a best-selling author of Scaling Up Excellence, and he's one of my longtime colleagues at the
0:37.3	Stanford Technology Ventures program. Today, he's one of my longtime colleagues at the Stanford Technology
0:38.1	Ventures Program. Today, he's going to talk to us about how each of us can cope with and manage
0:43.2	jerks in the workplace. Here's Bob. Great to see you all. Welcome to the STVP now classic series.
0:51.6	Are we over 20 years, Tom? It seems like going on in a long time. And I think
0:57.4	this is the fifth or sixth time I have talked. It's only my second talk about assholes. I talk about
1:01.9	other topics as well. Let me describe kind of the adventure that led to the book I'm going to talk
1:10.1	about in some detail.
1:12.6	So I didn't mean to write two books on assholes.
1:15.7	The first one was kind of an accident.
1:17.6	It was as a result of writing a short article for the Harvard Business Review called More Trouble Than
1:23.8	Their Worth.
1:24.2	And I actually was inspired because a department, which has now been
1:28.3	merged out of existence called Industrial Engineering that Tom and I were part of, actually had a no
1:32.6	asshole role. And at the same time, my wife was managing partner of a large law firm. And when you
1:38.9	are managing partner of a large law firm, asshole management is part of your job because lawyers are like
1:43.3	that. So we were kind of getting it from two different perspectives. So I thought that was kind of interesting. I got remarkable response to a short essay in the Harvard Business Review. So I wrote a book. I thought what that book, that book was called The No Asshole Rule, I thought what that book was about was about how to build an organizational culture that was relatively free of jerks.
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