You do not have to just take my word for it. The The No Asshole Rule won the Quill Awards for best business book of the year. Respectable sponsors like Publisher's Weekly, NBC, AARP, and Parade Magazine seem to be non-plussed by the rather dirty title that really describes so much of what people, not only in the office environment, but people in the marketplace have been experiencing for much to long.
The winners of the Quill Award were determined by a Voting Board consisting of more than 6,000 booksellers and librarians. The awards will be presented on October 22nd at a "gala ceremony" in New York City. The hosts are NBC’s Ann Curry and Al Roker. The list of presenters of includes Tiki Barber, Lorraine Bracco, Stephen Colbert, Tom Brokaw, Tina Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Groff, Brooke Shields. The Quills Award are meant to be the most populist of book awards, sort of like the People's Choice awards for TV, movies, and music.
Congratulations to Bob Sutton, who should be given high marks for calling these people what they really are, and warning us about the kind of damage they can do to our businesses, firms, organizations and society.
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