Sublime

Unlike the professorial Declan, Ben Diamond looks vaguely menacing, with his shaved head and black leather jacket. It takes innate command presence to pull off a look like that at age seventy-three, but Ben still has it.

The Jerk This smart-bad-employee type can crop up anywhere in the organization, but is particularly destructive at the executive level. At times, most executives can be pricks, dicks, a-holes, or a variety of equally profane nouns. I’d argue that being dramatically impolite can improve clarity or emphasize an important lesson—and anyway, that’s not

We finally agreed that I should invent an extra initial and call myself J. A. K. Gladney, a tag I wore like a borrowed suit.

was a bright guy—and a threat to Ross. Many of the speakers at his seminar were, like himself, Ross’s former students: among them Rick H., Vision, and Orion, an uber-nerd who was famous as the first PUA to sell videotapes of himself approaching girls on the street. This video series, Magical Connections, was considered hard evidence that nerds with