One of my rules in life that I had to learn the hard way is the “No jerks rule”. Following the excellent book by Bob Sutton of Stanford with a title that I cannot reprint here, I put a lot of emphasis on not having to work with jerks. I guess we all know co-workers and bosses who would qualify as jerks, but what I am talking about are people that score so high on the “dark triad” of socially harmful personality traits that they might be suspected to have antisocial personality disorder. Of course, I am not a doctor and am in no way qualified to diagnose anyone, but let me explain what the dark triad is and the impact people with high scores on it have at the workplace.
The “No jerks rule”
The “No jerks rule”
The “No jerks rule”
One of my rules in life that I had to learn the hard way is the “No jerks rule”. Following the excellent book by Bob Sutton of Stanford with a title that I cannot reprint here, I put a lot of emphasis on not having to work with jerks. I guess we all know co-workers and bosses who would qualify as jerks, but what I am talking about are people that score so high on the “dark triad” of socially harmful personality traits that they might be suspected to have antisocial personality disorder. Of course, I am not a doctor and am in no way qualified to diagnose anyone, but let me explain what the dark triad is and the impact people with high scores on it have at the workplace.