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Dr. Steve and Jim met up with author Bob Sutton (Bio) at SuccessConnect 2008. Shortly after his well received keynote session (watch here), Bob joined us for an interview in the Mobile People Performance Radio room.

Listen in as two Organizational Psychologist PHD’s talk about what defines an asshole in the workplace, how to avoid them and how to prevent breeding them. If there was ever an episode of PP Radio to not miss - this would be it!

Bob Sutton’s Bio

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School. He has written over 125 thought leading articles, and written several books including BusinessWeek bestseller The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t (Warner Business Books, 2007). Sutton’s blog is Work Matters and can be found at http://bobsutton.typepad.com.

Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from The University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly publications, and as an editor for the Administrative Science Quarterly and Research in Organizational Behavior. Sutton was also named as one of 10 “B-School All-Stars” by BusinessWeek in 2007, which they described as “professors who are influencing contemporary business thinking far beyond academia.”