The Asshole Survival Guide

Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan for anybody who feels plagued, bullied, and pushed around 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 sometimes 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 to make sure they're not part of the problem.

Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life and will go a long way to prevent all those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk.