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One of the good things about being a commuter in Toronto for me is the morning "Go Train" ride. Still foggy eyed and stunned into wakefulness with a nice extra large Java, I grab the Toronto Metro daily paper. You get to relax and reflect for a half hour or so. So sipping my coffee and I found this article in the 'worksmart' section by Jill Andrew
Book strips companies to expose corporate truths
Employees everywhere are looking for the ultimate answer to corporate success.
Does it take obtaining more degrees, sucking up to your boss, good old-fas shioned meritocracy or a blend of all three?
According to Ed Rychkun, author of the satirical How's Your AQ Today? Corporations Stripped Naked, anyonme who wants a corner office and a fancy title needs a good AQ.
AQ, Rychkun says, is one's a--hole qoutient: the measure of just how much of an impact being an a--hole has on someone's corporate rise - or fall. The right amount of AQ reportedly makes all the difference between those who become the doomat and those who have endless doors opened for them, he says.
In his book Rychkun, schools his readers on the sarying types of management styles and characteristics.of those a--hole types who have used their AQ to further their careers.
Rychkun doesn't stop there. Not only is it imperative that you are an a--hole , but its equally important that you see your coworkers in the same light, he says.
"These are often the the colleagues who are often so admired and 'look' like they've done so much work even though they haven't ," says Rychkun. "Ever wonder how they are able to fool everyone?"
Rychkun, an entrepreneur and semi-retired executive running his own publishing company, says his strategic alliances often helped him move up in the corporate world much more than the practical information that He learned at university.
"When I look at how I've climbed to positions of CEO, partner, director, founder, [or] chairman of coroporations over the span of 30 years in excecutive business ... I realized that I learned many things pertaining to actual corporate behaviour ... the 'underbelly' of corporations ...outside the textbooks and the normal MBA training," says Rychkun.
He shares this "unwritten material" in his new book, offering readers the real tactics used by those successful executives who've won in the corporate arenas he's witnessed.
To provide balance, he cautions that too much AQ in an a--hole obsessed environment doesn't make for fulfilling , long-term achievement either.
Rychkun, who descibes himself as a positive team player , even goes so far as to thank the many a--holes he's met along the way citing them as being the ones "who've made the book possible."
So how is your AQ today? For more information visit www.rrpbooks.com. JILL ANDREW for the TORONTO METRO
I nearly fell off my seat after reading that and it made me wonder what everyones AQ at work was. I think I will start assigning the AQ in a sort of informal rating system :). What do you think?
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