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Life & fun · December 2, 2015

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Perhaps a better corporate motto than "Don't be evil"

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't launched on December 2, 2015 with 56 votes, #1,510 of 3,505 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Today’s deluge of business books exhaustively addresses problems with leadership, corporate strategy, sales, budgeting, incentives, innovation, execution, and on and on. But scant attention is devoted to a problem that plagues every workplace: “assholes.” In a landmark Harvard Business Review essay, Stanford Professor Robert Sutton showed how “assholes” weren’t just an office nuisance, but a serio

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