I worked with Guy Kawasaki and the folks from Electric Pulp to develop the Asshole Rating Self Exam, or ARSE test, based on the The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't. Check out Guy's post on the test, his review of book, and take the 24-item ARSE test yourself -- and see if you are a certified asshole. Or perhaps there is that special someone you know who needs to take the test.
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12 Things I Believe
- 1. Sometimes the best management is no management at all -- first do no harm!
- 2. Indifference is as important as passion.
- 3. Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important. Learning to listen to others and to ask smart questions is more important.
- 4. You get what you expect from people. This is especially true when it comes to selfish behavior; unvarnished self-interest is a learned social norm, not an unwavering feature of human behavior.
- 5. Avoid pompous jerks whenever possible. They not only can make you feel bad about yourself, chances are that you will eventually start acting like them.
- 6. Anyone can learn to be creative, it just takes a lot of practice and little confidence
- 7. "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
- 8. Sutton's Law: “If you think that you have a new idea, you are wrong. Someone else probably already had it. This idea isn’t original either; I stole it from someone else”
- 9. "Am I a success or a failure?" is not a very useful question
- 10. The world would be a better place if people slept more and took more naps
- 11. Strive for simplicity and competence, but embrace the confusion and messiness along the way.
- 12. Jimmy Maloney is right, work is an overrated activity.
My Writing and Ranting
- How Evidence-Based Management Pays Off - NYTimes
- Bad Apples: New York Times
- Separating the best CEOs from the dolts| Financial Times
- How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy| Featured HBR Article
- Comment on "CEO's guide to reenergizing the senior team" in the McKinsey Quarterly
- Foreword toThe Peter Principle: Reprinted in BusinessWeek
- In Praise of Simple Competence -- Opinion -- BusinessWeek
- The Layoff: Harvard Business Review Case and Comments
- The ergonomics of innovation -- The McKinsey Quarterly
- BusinessWeek: Are You Being a Jerk? Again?
- interview Pixar Brad Bird - Innovation lessons from Pixar Director Brad Bird - Strategy - Innovation - The McKinsey Quarterly
- Why Managing by Facts Works: Strategy+Business
- Interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker:The McKinsey Quarterly
- Greater Good: Are You a Jerk? Special Issue on Power
- The Decent Thing to Call My Book - Publishers Weekly
- Fast Breaking Comment by Fabrizio Ferraro, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Robert I. Sutton
- Weird Rules of Creativity - Think You Manage Creativity? Here's Why You're Wrong - HBS Working Knowledge
- April 2007: Tips for dealing with workplace jerks
- Forbes.com Video Network: Weed Out the Bad Seed
- NPR : Weighing the Pros and Cons of Office Romances
- Stanford School of Engineering - Ask The Expert
- Act on Facts, Not Faith
- Why Managing by Facts Works
- Eight Tips for Better Brainstorming
- Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?
- Prove It
- The Case for Evidence-Based Management
- 800CEORead on Hard Facts
- YouTube - Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths ...
- Headlines - Untested Beliefs and Half Truths Pass as Management Gospel - Stanford GSB
Press Room
- The Apple effect: CSMonitor.com
- Good bosses know when to get out of the way: Financial Post
- Bad Bosses Beware -- ABC News
- Review and Comment | Peter Sims | Reuters.com
- Bad boss syndrome can feed on itself in a vicious cycle - The Globe and Mail
- Good boss, bad boss | Financial Post
- Getting around a bad boss - The Globe and Mail
- How to Rebound From a Wrong Career Choice - NYTimes
- The Problem With With Women Bosses -- Human Resource Executive
- Power Players And Profanity -- NPR All Things Considered
- Six Business Books to Read on the Beach -- Wall Street Journal
- Banishing the Office Jerks, Avoiders & Martyrs - WSJ.com
- AP: Dealing With a Burned-Out Boss is Tricky
- Get Rid Of Jackass Clients - Forbes.com
- Business Daily - True leaders focus on followers, not themselves
- Manage Office Bullies - WSJ.com
- Luck Inc. - The Boston Globe
- A New Look at Dr. Peter's Useful, Hilarious Classic - BusinessWeek
- Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesn't buy results | Business | The Observer
- FT.com | Management Blog | Pick of the week
- Your new-age workforce - NYTimes.com
- How to hire a star, not a prima donna | News.com.au
- Why CEOs soft-pedal layoffs: Fortune Magazine
- IBM Reshapes Its Sales Meetings - BusinessWeek
- Management maxims in need of a makeover - US News and World Report
- Globe and Mail: The Best You Can Be Is a Perfect Imitation of Those Who Came Before You
- Oprah.com. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How to Stop Procrastinating
- The maverick mantra
- BusinessWeek: How to Make Meetings Matter
- Evidence-based HR management is the only way forward
- New York Times: After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again
- BusinessWeek: B-School All-Stars
- Financial Times: The Cost of Hidden Bias at Work
- BusinessWeek:Powerful Profs
- WSJ CareerJournal | Why Preparing for Failure Can Bring You Success
- BusinessWeek: The Name of the Game Is Work
- WSJ CareerJournal | Though Now Routine, Bosses Still Stumble During the Layoff Process
- WSJ.com:Now, It's Business By Data
- globeandmail.com: Hard facts about this year's books
- Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online
- BusinessWeek Recommends this blog
- BusinessWeek: The Talent Hunt
- BusinessWeek: Eight Rules To Brilliant Brainstorming
- BusinessWeek: The Truth About Brainstorming
- The Observer | Business | You could be a genius - if only you had a good system
- NPR : Hollywood Tolerates Strange Behavior, Up to a Point
- How do you say no to a Yes Man?
- Nasty Boss Phenom
- The Observer |Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies
- USNews.com: Management maxims in need of a makeover
My Places
Stanford Executive Programs
Good Books
Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Robert I. Sutton: Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
Marc Gillinov M.D.: Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need
Chip Conley: Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
Chip Conley: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
Michael Maccoby: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails
Adam Lashinsky: Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works
David Novak: Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen
James Adams: Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality
Robert I. Sutton: Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
- David A Owens: Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
C.K. Prahalad: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Boris Groysberg: Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
Howard Gardner: Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
Thomas K. McCraw: Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Peter Cappelli: Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
Peter Sims: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
Guy Kawasaki: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
Matthew E. May: The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change
Paul Ekman: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Third Edition
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
Robert I. Sutton: The No Asshole Rule -- Paperback published 9/1/10
Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Vineet Nayar: Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down
Liz Wiseman: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Tony Hsieh: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Christopher Chabris: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Chip Heath: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Daniel H. Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Rakesh Khurana: Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Morten T. Hansen: Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results
Alan M. Webber: Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self
Matthew E. May: In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
Pamela Slim: Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
Dacher Keltner: Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Laurence J. Peter: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Donovan Campbell: Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Paul Ekman: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Third Edition
James Dyson: Against the Odds: An Autobiography (Business icons)
Richard A. Moran: Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts: Fundamental Business and Life Lessons You Must Know
Lucian Bebchuk: Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
Thomas M. Tripp: Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge--And How to Stop It
Randy Komisar: The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
J. Richard Hackman: Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
Scott A. Snook: Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
Frank Hauser: Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair
Thomas Kelley: The Art of Innovation: Success Through Innovation the IDEO Way
- The Psychology of Gratitude (Series in Affective Science)
Robert Emmons: Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier
Hayagreeva Rao: Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations
Alice Schroeder: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Donald T. Phillips: Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Michael Maccoby: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails
Warren Bennis: Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
Michael Maccoby: The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow
Michael A. Hiltzik: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Noah J. Goldstein: Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Peter Bearman: Doormen (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
P. M. Forni: The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
Charles L. Bosk: Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Martin Kihn: House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
Martin Kihn: Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too
Dean Keith Simonton: Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
David McCullough: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Bob Sullivan: Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day-and What You Can Do About It
Kerry Patterson: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
C. Fred Alford: Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Chip Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Robert B. Cialdini: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
Michael S. Malone: Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
Shona L. Brown: Competing on the Edge : Strategy as Structured Chaos
Thomas H. Davenport: Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
John Steinbeck: The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics)
Peter J. Frost: Toxic Emotions at Work and What You Can Do About Them
Louis Uchitelle: The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Phil Rosenzweig: The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
William C. Taylor: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Rakesh Khurana: Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Jeffrey Pfeffer: New Directions for Organization Theory : Problems and Prospects
James L. Adams: Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
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So where is the test?
Posted by: Roy | January 12, 2012 at 08:08 AM
The problem with that test is, the answers are really obvious (would anyone deliberately pick "You enjoy lobbing "innocent" comments into meetings that serve no purpose other than to humiliate or cause discomfort to the person on the receiving end"?), or are the sort of thing that a true asshole would never notice, ie "You have the feeling that people are always very careful about what they say around you".
I realise this is just a fun toy to promote the book, but I wonder if a more subtle version couldn't be valuable for that very special manager...
Posted by: Ms .45 | April 25, 2007 at 04:21 AM