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The asshole survival guide : how to deal with people who treat you like dirt / Robert I. Sutton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 214 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781328695918
  • 1328695913
Subject(s):
Contents:
Eight thousand emails -- Asshole assessment: how bad is the problem? -- Make a clean getaway -- Asshole avoidance techniques: reducing your exposure -- Mind tricks that protect your soul -- Fighting back -- Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Summary: Sutton starts with diagnosis: what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with assholes-- avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. By helping you develop an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, Sutton also help you prevent all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 650.13 S967 Available 33111008957298
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 650.13 S967 Available 33111008819274
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

If you're feeling stressed out, overtaxed, under-appreciated, bullied, or abused because you work with a jerk, learn how to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes--today.



Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan when you find yourself working with a jerk--whether in the office, on the field, in the classroom, or just in life.



Sutton starts with diagnosis--what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with the rude, impolite, irritating, unpleasant, or just plain incompetent--avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. 
 




Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your life, and will prevent all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-206) and index.

Eight thousand emails -- Asshole assessment: how bad is the problem? -- Make a clean getaway -- Asshole avoidance techniques: reducing your exposure -- Mind tricks that protect your soul -- Fighting back -- Be part of the solution, not the problem.

Sutton starts with diagnosis: what kind of asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, he provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies for dealing with assholes-- avoiding them, outwitting them, disarming them, sending them packing, and developing protective psychological armor. By helping you develop an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, Sutton also help you prevent all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.

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