Just about everyone knows an asshole where they work ? people who are terrible to deal with, with whom interaction is tedious at best and excruciating at worst. Most of us have to deal with these assholes in our workplaces at one time or another, or are having to try to manage them at present.

The No Asshole Rule shows how these destructive characters damage their workmates and undermine organizational performance, and suggests creative ways and means to understand what makes them tick and deal with them ? or get rid of them.


Robert I.Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, an active researcher and cofounder in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder and active member of the new 'd.school," a multi-disciplinary program that teaches and spreads "design thinking." Sutton is also an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.