Bob Sutton, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford, lists the negative emotional and physical effects that workplace jerks have on their peers, as well as on people’s performance. Sutton, a bestselling author of several books on the subject, asserts that, whether or not overbearing bosses drive success, their bad behavior poisons their organization.
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