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It's actually Bob Sutton's rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
by Estragon 16y ago
It's actually Bob Sutton's rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
- MartinCron 16y agoFor anyone who is interested in interpersonal relationships at work, Bob Sutton is pretty much required reading. I especially enjoy his blog. http://bobsutton.typepad.com/ http://bobsutton.typepad.com/
- pg 16y agoIncidentally, we don't call it a "no asshole rule." I think what I originally said to Robert was that we try not to accept jerks, and since he'd heard the phrase "no asshole rule" he used that to describe it. Our criteria aren't the ones listed in this article, either. We're not trying to avoid people who make other people feel bad so much as those who are bogus, or dishonest. That's what we mean by a jerk: someone you can't trust.
- Estragon 16y agoThanks for the clarification.
- SkyMarshal 16y ago> someone you can't trust. Judging who you can trust, especially based on brief, early impressions, is quite a skill. Some have a natural intuition for it, others don't, but like many things I bet that intuition can be deconstructed into a series of learnable techniques. Would you consider writing an essay deconstructing how you and Robert judge who you can trust in business?
- jackowayed 16y agoHe's said in previous interviews that they all just ask Jessica, who is extremely good at judging character, because the rest of them aren't very good.
- 16s 16y agoShe must be their Counselor Troy :)
- SkyMarshal 16y agoAh, she's one of the intuitive ones. Some of it is probably due to women being more perceptive to body language and non-verbal communication than men are, on average. I wonder what else there is.
- StavrosK 16y agoDid I miss something, or was that awkward way the interviewer was interrupting pg real? At one point pg is saying something, and the interviewer interrupts him (while he's explaining) with some unintelligible thing, and pg goes "... <rage face> <swig>"
- ivankirigin 16y agoThat is scoble's style. He is friendly, gregarious, abd excitable which makes him great and horrible for interviews. His eagerness is net positive though. Often it makes interviews with more boring people tolerable.
- StavrosK 16y agoAh, thanks. I don't know him, and I didn't watch the entire interview, that part just looked too awkward to be serious...