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The No Asshole Rule Summary and Review
★★★★☆ 4.2/5 — A Stanford professor’s blunt, research-backed case that toxic coworkers cost real money, and a practical playbook for screening them…
Read Summary →Robert I. Sutton
"The Stanford professor who put a dollar figure on what toxic coworkers actually cost."
Robert I. Sutton is Professor Emeritus of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. An organizational psychologist, he co-founded Stanford's Center for Work, Technology and Organization, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Stanford d.school. The No Asshole Rule grew out of a widely read 2004 Harvard Business Review article. His other books include Weird Ideas That Work, The Knowing-Doing Gap and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense (both with Jeffrey Pfeffer), Good Boss, Bad Boss, The Asshole Survival Guide, and Scaling Up Excellence and The Friction Project (both with Huggy Rao).
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Toxic behavior has a real, measurable organizational cost
In "The No Asshole Rule," Sutton argues demeaning, power-abusing coworkers inflict calculable damage through turnover, absenteeism, and lost productivity, and that organizations should enforce an explicit rule against hiring or keeping them, even when they're talented.
Notable Quotes
"Assholes are us."— The No Asshole Rule
Book Author Robert I. Sutton
The No Asshole Rule Summary and Review
★★★★☆ 4.2/5 — A Stanford professor’s blunt, research-backed case that toxic coworkers cost real money, and a practical playbook for screening them out or surviving them. Best for: managers building hiring and culture standards, and anyone currently stuck with a…