am i a certified a$$hole?

Turns out…no. I scored a big fat 0.  Try it out and see where you stand…

Step 1.

Find Out With the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)…it’s a 24 question hole-in-oscopy!

Step 2.

…then maybe pick up…

…but definitely check out Bob Sutton’s blog. And, while you’re at it, you can check out Guy Kawasaki’s blog about the ARSE.

 

Bob has also just asked a great question (Does power corrupt?) on LinkedIn, and there are hundreds of answers already…check it out.

What About Bob? Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, an active member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder of the new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Sutton is also an IDEO Fellow. Sutton studies the links between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance, and has published over 100 articles in academic and applied publications. Sutton is author of Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation (Free Press, 2002) and co-author (with Jeffrey Pfeffer) of both The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) and of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).

In other words…Bob knows a bit about the subject.