# The Asshole Survival Guide

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- Authors: [Robert I. Sutton](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-i-sutton)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-09-07

## Description

Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40 percent, and research shows that rudeness spreads like a common cold. In The Asshole Survival Guide, Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers practical advice on identifying and tackling any kind of asshole - based on research into groups from uncivil civil servants to French bus drivers, and 8,000 emails that he has received on asshole behaviour. With expertise and humour, he provides a cogent and methodical game-plan to fight back. First, he sets out the asshole audit, to find out what kind of asshole needs dealing with, and asshole detection strategies. Then he reveals field-tested, sometimes surprising techniques, from asshole avoidance and asshole taxes, to mind-tricks and the art of love bombing. Finally, he explains the dangers of asshole blindness - when the problem might be yours truly.

## Editions

### The Asshole Survival Guide

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4129-900-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2018-08-30
- Language: en_GB

### The Asshole Survival Guide

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-018-7
- Published: 2017-09-07
- Language: en_GB

### The Asshole Survival Guide

- Publisher: Portfolio Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 58 min
- Narrated by: Robert I. Sutton
- ISBN: 978-02-4129-901-2
- Published: 2017-09-07
- Language: en_GB