The Asshole Survival Guide

This book is a contemporary classic--a shrewd and spirited guide to protecting ourselves from the jerks bullies tyrants and trolls who seek to demean. We desperately need this antidote to the a-holes in our midst.--Daniel H. Pink best-selling author of <em>To Sell Is Human</em> and <em>Drive</em> <p/><strong>How to avoid outwit and disarm assholes from the author of the classic <em>The No Asshole Rule</em></strong> <br> As entertaining as it is useful The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued by assholes. Sutton starts with diagnosis--what kind of asshole problem exactly are you dealing with? From there he provides field-tested evidence-based and often surprising strategies for dealing with assholes--avoiding them outwitting them disarming them sending them packing and developing protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle their own inner jackass. <br> Ultimately this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life and rescue all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. <p/> Thought-provoking and often hilarious . . . An indispensable resource.--Gretchen Rubin best-selling author of <em>The Happiness Project</em> and <em>Better Than Before</em> <p/> At last . . . clear steps for rejecting deflecting and deflating the jerks who blight our lives . . . Useful evidence-based and fun to read.--Robert Cialdini best-selling author of <em>Influence</em> and <em>Pre-Suasion</em> <br>