High “D”, Low “I”
October 31st, 2006 by Chief Nut
I’m jumping on the bandwagon. In the past two days the book The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton has been referenced by Guy Kawasaki, John Moore, Mike Rothman, Doug Mitchell, Andrew Luter, and MANY others … now me too. I’ve pre-ordered the book and look forward to a very interesting read (the decision to do so based on this video).
Other than the Starbucks test …
If you hear someone at Starbucks order a …decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n…-Low and one NutraSweet,… you…re in the presence of an asshole.
… I’m not sure yet if anyone has given a really good test that can be given to determine if an individual qualifies as “an asshole”. We recently hired a local business consultant to come to our office to give a half day workshop as a follow up to a DISC Assessment that was conducted for each of our employees. (BTW, DISC is a very interesting process and an amazing approach to doing personality assessments!) We were told that a person scoring a very high “D” as well as scoring a very low “I” will qualify as a “flaming A-hole”. Come to think of it, anyone who places an order at Starbucks, as described above, would qualify as a high-D-low-I. Verrrrry Interesting.
