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They definitely had a "no asshole" rule and they needed someone they would be comfortable brainstorming with in a small room for hours.
He authored "The No Asshole Rule" a decade ago, and, relying on academic studies and thousands of email exchanges and conversations he has had with readers since, Sutton is now publishing a follow-up book next week called "The Asshole Survival Guide".
"You giving me a car, Shit Bird?" "No, asshole.
(Sometimes, the aims are more direct, as with the title of the Stanford professor Robert Sutton's influential 2007 civility manual, "The No Asshole Rule").
As Bob Sutton notes in his entertaining and important The No Asshole Rule (Sphere), succeeding in business is not the same as having a successful business; in fact without careful management, the abrasive qualities that the unscrupulous use to elbow others out of their way as they move up can, and often do, tear the fabric of the organisation to bits.
A professor at Stanford's Engineering School, he is the author of bestselling books like The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss.
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ATP Director Barry Hogan maintains a "no assholes" policy for all the performers who appear at his festival.
Following in the footsteps of business giants like Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, all startups should adopt a "no assholes" policy to build a stellar team.
I maintain a strict no-asshole policy.
"Bill Lawrence (who was the creator of 'Scrubs") has an infamous no-asshole policy," Foley wrote.
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