Work Matters

David Haygood from IDEO wrote me a lovely, funny, note about what happened when "Pete Kale, a friend and an IDEO client with our Transformation

I have written in-depth about "Why I call them assholes," why for me, no other word captures the emotions I feel when I am the

My wife — an attorney — always emphasizes that if anything bad is happening to you, and you want your organization, your boss, or your

I have been asked a lot of question lately about the best way to confront an asshole. There are times when this isn’t a good

The Asshole Rating Self-Exam (or ARSE) continues to boom along.  The folks at Electric Pulp tell me that things in the interview keep booming along:

5OLessons makes high quality videos with leaders of various kinds — business leaders, government, and academics — and sells them online.  Adam Sodowick and his

The Brazen Careerist columnist Penelope Trunk —  who writes for both the Boston Globe and Yahoo! — was kind enough to mention the book and

The current New Yorker has a compelling and disheartening story by James B. Stewart called "The Kona Files" about the nasty conflict and leaks to

The San Francisco Chronicle story today on Crusade Against the Jerk at Work has provoked a delightful — and sometimes troubling — deluge of emails

The No Asshole Rule focuses on workplace bullies, but of course, this is a problem that pervades many other corners of life: schools, churches, families,

Our leading local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has a front page story today "Crusade Against the Jerk at Work." In the print version, it