The No A****** Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
By Robert I. Sutton
An Extract
CHAPTER 1: What Workplace Assholes Do and Why You Know So Many
Who deserves to be branded as an asshole? Many of us use the term indiscriminately, applying it to anyone who annoys us, gets in our way, or happens to be enjoying greater success than us at the moment. But a precise definition is useful if you want to implement the no asshole rule.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
By Marcus Buckingham
Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to education. Now that the movement is in full swing, Buckingham's new book answers the ultimate question: How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work?
Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work -- in fact, only 17 percent of the workforce believes they use all of their strengths on the job
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Winning: The Answers - Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today
Know How: The 8 skills that separate people who perform from those who don’t
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America
An Inconvenient Truth
iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon
Tough Choices: A Memoir
A Hand to Guide Me
The Pursuit of Happyness
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Teacher man: A Memoir
Cat O'Nine Tales
Partners in crime
Marley and Me
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
'The World Is Flat'
A Brief History of the 21st Century
Screw it, let’s do it
Phishing : Cutting the Identity Theft Line
Security and Usability
"The Sea" - The Winner of Booker Prize 2005
'Great Age Guides': Series shows kinder side of technology
Seeing What's Next
Blue Ocean Strategy
Follow This Path
The GE Work-out
Sack The CEO
Competing for the Future
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
Bringing out the best in people
A Practical Guide to Easing Tension and Conquering Stress
Working relationships : The simple truth about getting along with friends and foes at work
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don't
Competitive Advantage
Competing for the Future
Digital Capital
Pipe Dreams
A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs
What the CEO Wants You to Know
It's Not the Big that Eat the Small...It's the Fast that Eat the Slow
My Forbidden Face by Latifa
Trouble Begins and Ends with the CEO
No Logo
My Pedagogic Creed
Lexus and the Olive Tree
Second Sex
Against Method
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Dilbert Future
Intel chairman Andy Grove's journey to freedom
A juicy insider account
Jack Straight from the Gut
The Future Just Happened
The Anatomy of Buzz
Rebel Code
The Attention Economy
An Excerpt from "Second Coming of Steve Jobs"
IBM and the Holocaust
An Extract from "Pride Before the Fall" (A book on Microsoft's antitrust case)
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