No Assholes Allowed, and Other Great Insights

I always find Bob Sutton's blog fascinating. I was a huge fan of his book with Jeff Pfeffer on evidence-based management, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense, just as I was of Sutton's heralded book, The No Asshole Rule. In the latter book, Sutton laid out the very real cost of assholes at work.

His list of "15 Things I Believe" is no less insightful.

Some of my favorites are:

4) Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important. Learning to listen to others and ask smart questions is more important.

8) Avoid pompous jerks whenever possible. They not only can make you feel bad about yourself, chances are that you will eventually start acting like them.

9) The best test of a person's character is how he or she treats those with less power.

10) The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

13) Err on the side of optimism and positive energy in all things.


Check the full list out below...

Bob Sutton