ORI The Ahole Survival Guide : How To Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

From the international bestselling expert on dealing with aholes'With cuttingedge research and reallife examples that are thoughtprovoking and often hilarious, this is an indispensable resource'Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project'At last someone has provided clear steps rejecting, dejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives. Better still, that someone is the great Bob Sutton, which ensures that the inmation is useful, evidencebased, and fun to read'Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and PreSuasion'If only Bob Sutton's book had been available to help me deal with the full complement of 1stclass aholes I've encountered in my 50year professional life. No names shall be mentioned'Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of ExcellenceBeing around aholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage permance and affect wellbeing: having one ahole in a team has been shown to reduce permance by 30 to 40%, and research shows that rudeness spreads like a common cold. In The ahole Survival Guide, Stand professor Robert Sutton offers practical advice on identifying and tackling a kind of ahole based on research into groups from uncivil civil servants to French bus drivers, and 8,000 emails that he has received on ahole behaviour.With expertise and humour, he provides a cogent and methodical gameplan to fight back. First, he sets out the ahole audit, to find out what kind of ahole needs dealing with, and ahole detection strategies. Then he reveals fieldtested, sometimes surprising techniques, from ahole avoidance and ahole taxes, to mindtricks and the art of love bombing. Finally, he explains the dangers of ahole blindness when the problem might be yourstruly.Readers will learn how to handle aholes in the workplace and beyond once and allCommentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Thupten Jinpa is the senior translator to the Dalai Lama and President of the Institute of Tibetan s. Graham Coleman is founder of the Orient Foundation Arts and Culture, a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization, and writerdirector of the acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy. Gyurme Dorje is a leading scholar of the ingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, from which the Tibetan Book of the Dead literature derives.