Ep. 587: Robert Sutton Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Robert Sutton, a Professor of Management science at the Stanford Engineering School and researcher in the field of Evidence-based management. Sutton is also the best-selling author of “The No Asshole Rule.” What does it mean to live in a “no asshole environment”? It means to weed out the people who demean and make you and others feel horrible. He gives the science and craft behind how to deal with assholes, how to prune these people from your life and get out of negative situations.

The topics are his books The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't and The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The no asshole rule
The role of assholes in entrepreneurship
Steve Jobs
Demeaned and de-energized
Self-awareness
Depression in relation to to workplace
Weeding out nasty people from your life
The asshole tax
Avoiding “the crazy”

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	A guest today is Bob Sutton.
0:36.0	He's a professor of management science at the Stanford Engineering School and a researcher
0:40.9	in the field of evidence-based management.
0:44.8	Bob lives two different lives from my perspective, the very serious Stanford professor
0:51.5	and the really cool side persona that he has developed, side authorship.
0:59.6	His first famous book, The No-Asshole Rule, Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't.
1:07.1	That was 2007. But today, in 2017, his follow-up, the asshole survival guide, how to deal with people
1:15.1	who treat you like dirt.
1:17.8	What a great excuse to use the word asshole on this podcast for the first time.
1:24.1	At least I think it's the first time.
1:25.9	I know there is ample swearing on this podcast, but I don't believe the word asshole has been used yet.
1:34.1	At least not in an interview.
1:37.1	I hope you enjoy this great conversation with Robert Sutton.
1:55.3	Yeah. Speaking of like kind of unforeseen things to happen. I mean, when I look at your resume, you've been at Stanford for a long time. I think the early 80s. You've got a back. You've got to back.
2:00.4	Okay. You know, this is this is serious stuff. I've been to got a back. You've got a... Okay.
2:02.8	You know, this is serious stuff.
2:04.2	I've been to Stanford's campus.
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