Many people have been called one. Many people have worked with one, or more! God forbid you are married to one. They come in all shapes and sizes and all ages, both male and female, and in virtually all industries. I'm talking about your garden variety asshole. You know the guy. The naysayer, the whiner, the put down artist, the brown noser, the sarcasm specialist. We all can recognize them instantly. They all seem to be on the road at once during morning rush hour.
Up to now however, there has never been a definitive test. Leave it to Guy Kawasaki, famed venture capitalist and blogger, to endorse and publish a "self qualifying examination".
Action Item: Take the test!
The Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)
I was originally going to tag this as a side rail link, but decided this was such a prominent item it just had to have its' own article! The 24 question test was designed by Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, PhD in support of his book called The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't .
The books purpose is to offer ideas on business transformation into companies that do not tolerate bad business behavior. The basic idea of the book is that those people ...those assholes!..that demean colleagues, poison the work environment, import negativity everywhere... have to go!
Seems ironic that a VC endorses this book... but maybe thats the beauty of it.
Now if we can just get the a-holes off the highway.
Eric
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