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In his provocatively titled book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, Stanford Business School professor Robert Sutton shows readers how to deal with “bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other [people]” at work who can make our lives miserable.7 Cit

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Sheila Heen • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Managing the Professional Service Firm

David H. Maister

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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

Andrew S. Grove

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The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)

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Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't

Jeffery Pfeffer • 1 highlight

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Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

Claire Hughes Johnson • 1 highlight

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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Simon Sinek • 1 highlight

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How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t

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Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds