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Ever worked with a difficult colleague?

5/11/2007

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Posted by Jon
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The Times recently presented extracts from the latest book by Robert Sutton, a professor of management science. His new theory is called “The No A**hole Rule”.*

Apparently, so the new theory goes, it’s important at work to:​
​‘distinguish people who are having a bad day or a bad moment (”temporary a**holes”) from persistent nasty and destructive jerks (”certified a**holes”).’
I offer this up partly for your amusement, but also with a cynical view that it could prove useful when categorising team members on some proposal efforts!

*The newspaper uses asterisks throughout the article – then, oddly, quotes the book’s title in full. I’ve gone for the tamer version, to spare the blushes of our more delicate readers!
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Jen
3/26/2016 05:24:47 am

…And might I enquire exactly whom you are referring to, revered leader? ;-)

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Jon
3/26/2016 05:25:08 am

Jen – perish the thought I had any specific individual in mind!

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