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- I Hate People! by Jonathan Littman & Marc Hershon is published by the good folks at Little, Brown in New York. The elements we've started blogging about here and a whole lot more can be found between the covers.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
- "In a wry, counterintuitive twist on the workplace self-help book, the authors propose to help the reader expertly identify and neutralize the 'corporate oafs' who block the path to career satisfaction and creative independence. The rejected culture of phony niceness, Littman and Hershon claim, has led the business world astray -- and only the path of 'people hating' can get things back on track."
- "I Hate People! is a bracing antidote to the management bromide that "there is no 'i' in 'team.' True enough, Messrs. Hershon and Littman would say -- but if you move things around a bit, there is a 'me.'"
- "It is both a self-help manual for people hoping to not only keep their jobs during the recession, but also possibly advance, as well as a taxonomy of office workers for managers, to help them make better staffing and team-building decisions. But it also is about innovation."
- "This is the rare book that is clever and funny -- as you laugh along with Jonathan and Marc, you realize that their analysis and solutions are actually deeper and more useful than the piles of management books out there that take themselves far more seriously..."
- "I must say that I have just finished reading the best corporate business book in my life."
- "Amusing and filled with entertaining examples of antisocial geeks who made good..."
Audio Hate Takes
- Radio Shows & PodcastsHere is the most recent appearance by Jonathan and Marc, talking about I Hate People!
- Jon & Marc on NPR's TechNation with Moira Gunn
Want to hear more? You can check out some of their other appearance by clicking over to the Audio Hate Takes page
- And if you'd prefer to listen to I Hate People! rather than read it, download the Gildan Media audiobook edition, which is available for download from Audible.com.
We even team up as your readers in this offering! Here's a sample from the audiobook...
During the recording sessions we did for the audiobook edition of I Hate People!, we had a couple of funny outtakes that came up that we thought we'd share. Take a listen...
- Outtake #1
- Outtake #2
Tell Us Your Stories!
- Got someone who gets your goat? It can be a co-worker, a boss, an employee or maybe a person on your commute that makes your blood boil and want to shout "I hate people!" Whatever your story, we'd like to read it and, if it's truly hate-worthy, we'll post it up here on the front page AND send you a free copy of "I Hate People!"
Know-It-None, Professional Edition
- I call her the “Teflon Cell Tower”. Every day, she runs hither and yon, like a baby elephant, each meeting more critical than the next. Whatever goes in her ears at one meeting is transmitted out of her mouth at the next, regardless of it’s relationship to the subject matter. Sadly, nothing actually sticks in her brain. Or to her hands, for that matter.
Consequently, her colleagues are tortured by the endless reiteration of known truths and obvious facts sprinkled with trite consulting buzzwords and business-speak. For her, they are profound thoughts for pressing issues. They may have been someone else's thoughts long ago,but that has no bearing here.
If her established patter is derailed by a question or a comment, the verbal tap dancing can last for 20 minutes or more until she restores the correct broadcast frequency.
Given what I have witnessed in the last 15 years, her future is secure – she does no real work, has no real expertise and agrees with everything.
TCT is no longer my problem. After a long, distinguished career, I had enough FU money to liberate myself when this re-assignment was announced. I love being free from the people I hate, but I do miss hating them on a daily face-to-face basis.
— FreeAtLast
Hate Bites
- "I Hate People! has a lot to teach you about office life, so if you hate your job, need help producing better work in a crappy environment or just genuinely hate people, then this book is for you. In fact, I’m going to read it again. Why? Because I hate people that much."
— Paigel - "Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon have created a masterpiece of office human relations."
— Carpe Factum - "Carol over at Carol’s Notebook has a copy of I Hate People. This awesomely titled book was written by Marc Hershon and Jonathan Littman, and it’ll teach you how to be …. me."
— West of Mars blog
- "I wanted you to know it is one of the best promotional packages I've ever received. I spent 20 years in the music business, including running Disney's Hollywood Records, and over the years put together thousands of promo packages with the goal of making them stand out. The "I Hate People" package puts pretty much everything I've done to shame. Outstanding!"
— Reviewer (name withheld)
- "Your book on hating people is hilarious; I had no idea I'd inspired you so much, so negatively."
— Internet Executive
Blogs Making Sense
- Acts Of Hate
- Bob Sutton / Work Matters
- BrightSight Group
- Business Pundit
- Drownout.com
- Fistful of Talent
- Freakonomics Blog
- Funemployment
- Gruntled Employees
- Guy Kawasaki / How To Change The World
- Learn to Duck
- Management Issues Blog
- My Global Career
- Personal Branding Blog
- Puke Till You Punk
- The Cynical Girl
- Ranker
- Rock & Roll Mama
- Scoffery.com
- Seth Godin's Blog
- Stuff White People Like
- The 4-Hour Work Week Blog
- The Anti 9-to-5 guide
- The Anti-Pimp
- The Corner Office
- The Fallacy of Teamwork
- Your HR Guy
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Finding Hate Elsewhere
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Author Appearances
- We'll add dates & locations as they come in! (All times Pacific unless otherwise noted.)
- VIDEO TIDBITS
Click on the thumbnails for access!
Jonathan and Marc were at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA.
Jonathan and Marc woke up early enough one recent morning to make it on CNBC's Squawk Box. Check it out!
Marc paid a visit to CNN's American Morning show. Here's how it went:
Vote for your favorite in the Sandwich Man Dance Off and maybe win a free copy of I Hate People!
Watch the authors try to bring the Hate to Venice Beach in California:
The authors find hate on the mean streets of New York:
Soloist Manifesto
Karl Marx had a manifesto. David Grossman of IBM had one when he wanted to wake up Big Blue to the next big thing - The Internet. Now there's a manifesto for you:
Start the Soloist Journey: Become the Hero in the Face of The Ten Least Wanted
What's really cool is that our Manifesto is up in a very nice place — Changethis.com, which encourages business authors, entrepreneurs and executives to "spread important ideas and change minds."
Click the link above to get the PDF (and feel free to pass it along to friends, co-workers and even the boss.)
Ensemble Box
The Ensemble Box is dedicated to our friends who occasionally provide us with insightful guest pieces for the blog. (Just like the Soloists we talk about, we can't do this alone!)
Jarie Bolander, who has his own blog — The Daily MBA — and author of Frustration Free Technical Management, recently wrote "Eight Soloist Secrets About Side Projects" for us. Click the link and check it out...
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- Take our POP QUIZ to find out!
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Bloggerific!
- Here's some of the blogs where you can find excerpts and mentions of I Hate People!, as well as some original pieces we're writing.
This should be under Twitteriffic but we don't have a section called that: a big thanks to Jerret Turner over at DMO Planner for proclaiming to the Twitterverse that IHP! is his favorite book in the last 10 years!; a tip o' the mouse to TJ McCue and his coverage of our Cubicle Evacuation Plan sign over on the shiftboard blog; thanks to a Twitter connection made recently with Paige Presley, we got to see her delightful review of our book; neat to see our book featured over on The Daily MBA, the brains behind which sent me a DM tweet saying he found it "Well written, funny and spot on."
Hate Mate
- Hate Mates wanted!Become a Hate Mate! Tell us in 50 words or so why you'd make a great Hate Mate to spread our I Hate People! message throughout the cubedom that is your office!
If we like your take, we'll proclaim you one of our official Hate Mates and post your story here. Hate Mates will receive our "Trying To Be Productive" Pack, an autographed book and as many I Hate People! "Stay Out of My Cube!", "Do Not Disturb!" signs and bookmarks as you need to pass around the office to make your point.
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Hateware
The Ten Least Wanted
- In our book, we’ve selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people, then fired out techniques for going over, under or through them. Such as Liar Liar, whose falsehoods can steer your career off course in no time flat:
Click that little guy to jump over to our handy online guide to help spot the Ten Least Wanted in your office, featuring some of their common phrases...
In The Office
- Top Ten Useless iPhone Apps
If you have an iPhone, you know that there are some incredibly useful, can't-do-without, apps that can keep you productive, informed and entertained. Then there are these...
10. Ugly Meter
9. Fat Booth
8. I Am T-Pain
7. Talking Baby Hippo
6. Talking Antoine: The Bed Intruder
5. Love Detector
4. Your True Pirate Name
3. Animal Weights
2. My Jumping Friend
1. AskWally
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ABOUT THIS BLOG
- What's the philosophy of our blog? It's about having the boldness to create the attitude, space and time you need to stretch your career and expand your life. Taking that critical step toward becoming one of those happy souls who deftly works alone or collaborate with just a handful of other talented people…while artfully deflecting all the rest. Because while you can't change the people you hate -- you can stop them from dragging you down.
As we break out your revealing first person accounts and surprising news and studies -- all in the context of our effective strategies for artful hating -- you'll discover that you're learning a kind of martial arts approach to coping with problem people. We're bringing the power of redirecting and avoiding the emotional blows dished out by bosses, co-workers and competitors. While you may need a lot of these people to get through your day, your career and your life...nobody said you have to like them.
For more about where we're going with this blog, click on to The Hate Starts Here.
hahaha thats a good one. ...
Posted by: Macy | June 03, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Seriously, I love people, just not those people LOL Sadly, there are too many of them :)
Posted by: Debbie Sue | June 03, 2009 at 10:34 PM
HATE is such an ugly word. Ugly yet appropriate.
Posted by: Mike | June 05, 2009 at 06:26 PM
I hate people I love those bank adverts where everyone has their own planet, that works for me a whole planet no people, no extra mess no noise, no screaming kids be utter perfection!
Posted by: laura | October 06, 2009 at 09:34 AM
Hey I need more options - in many cases I all the options are equally not applicable - for example - company meetings - I would like it only when the discussion is valid, focussed and finally productive. And we do have such meetings.
So I was forced to go "no answer" for many of the questions
Posted by: Arunkumar | November 24, 2009 at 09:35 PM
It's a multiple choice quiz, Arunkamar, and these are the only answers to choose from. So you have to pick the ones closest to the answer that suits you. "No answer" is not an option, I'm afraid.
Cheers,
Marc Hershon
Posted by: hershco | November 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Absolutely hate people. Would be happiest on a remote Island in the middle of Nowhere. The less people interactions the better!
Posted by: Linger | March 18, 2010 at 08:45 AM
Here are a few thoughts/titles for you:
My career as a lighthouse keeper.
Has anybody seen my Mothership?
STORY:
My Ex boss was probably the most arrogant, self centered pompous ass I ever met.
During the three months that my mom got sick and passed away from cancer, he did not once show any real concern or support. Instead he would burden me with his little quips about how his 10 minute commute took 15 minutes, because of "friggin construction"
Then, after her passing when I took a few days to get her affairs in order, he drops the ball on two of my deals, with his typical, utter indifference and has the gaul to request I meet with him ( my first day back) to go over my deals and why I did or didn't get them closed.
What an idiot! No regard for anybody but himself. I could stomach his idiocy and just discount him as a fool. But, once he lowered himself to this level, knew I could not take the stench any longer, had to resign!!! Truly why I hate people!
Same guy's argument for why we don't have to worry about global warming, once backed into a corner and out of ammo, " God, will take care of it" was his reasoning". No need to recycle or find alternative energy sources.
Posted by: Pete | May 12, 2010 at 08:18 AM
Love the quiz hate people. Most people are just annoying. I could be hermit with no people contact and be perfectly happy! I must have my cat though!
Posted by: Lisa | June 01, 2010 at 11:41 PM
I hate people who are annoying. Wait a minute, that's everyone. Everyone is an a**hole, and that includes me. I hate my spouse the most, except when he's drilling me.
Posted by: humanhater | October 06, 2011 at 09:03 AM
35 ... I hate you all ~.~
Posted by: Misanthrope | October 19, 2011 at 07:30 AM
i absolutely hate certain people but not all.
Posted by: haley | November 01, 2011 at 01:52 PM
@Pete,
Your former boss (henceforth, 'it') sounds like a narcissist. Whenever you encounter a MFSOBC like that, remember, its spouse married it for money, its home life probably $ uck $ a $$, or rather $ uck $ 'Santorum' (google Santorum), its kids either hate its guts now or are involved in covert incest by one or both parents and will hate it later. In short, its life is hell. Its family's life is hell. You can secretly laugh at its misery because, ultimately, you can leave its sphere of influence, but everywhere it goes, there it is.
Posted by: Silas | January 18, 2012 at 10:21 AM
I got a score of 32 you sheep that think hate is "ugly" I hate you because YOU are ugly hahahahaha
Posted by: yeahidid | May 25, 2012 at 01:47 PM
i got 31 cuz i hate throat noises> i hate peole more then any other person could imagine
Posted by: cdawg | September 12, 2012 at 09:18 AM
I worked for this company where this girl wanted my job so bad she did anything to get it so she did spread all these lies about me that weren't true. She is a bitch and I hope her and her little crew rot in hell.
Posted by: Kathy | November 04, 2012 at 05:49 PM
I hate all different types of people. It all started when I worked front desk in a "not very busy" medical office in flint Michigan. These rude ass people would come in and just be total $#@%ing jerks for no reason at all! I had this one older guy throw his phone at me and he wasn't even a patient!! Lol. This was an every day thing and so finally one day I put my two weeks in , started college, and now still in college and working part time as a quiet janitor!! Ha ha!! No more "just dealing" with them!
Posted by: Karrie | October 08, 2013 at 03:19 PM
Where I work people are always leaning on the sides of the desk and I don't mind if it's their own desk but if it's mine I want to punch them in the face.
Posted by: MinamiSumi | October 10, 2013 at 12:40 AM
I hate people who lie to advance what they perceive as their careers. I hate people who are stupid enough to believe those lies.
I hate people who are only able to feel superior by putting others down.
I hate people who claim to hate social climbers but do everything possible to cozy up to those whose social status they perceive is better than their own.
I hate stupid people who keep trying to convince the world that they're intelligent. I hate those in the world who believe those braggarts are actually intelligent, despite all proof to the contrary.
I hate people who abuse animals.
I hate people who breed animals for profit.
I hate people who abuse children.
I hate wealthy people who feel they never have enough money.
I hate ideologues no matter what they believe in.
I hate people who are unable to think for themselves and wait for the group that they affiliate with to express a point of view.
I hate people who take credit for other people's work.
I hate hypocrites.
I hate people who are always trying to teach you something before they find out how much you know about the subject.
I hate people who are always jealous of others.
I hate rude people.
I hate loud people.
I hate people who pretend to care about others but do as they please, no matter who it harms.
Posted by: Susan | May 05, 2014 at 06:11 PM
Susan, while that's a LOT of different types of folks to be hating on – although I can certainly picture a Venn diagram with a lot of crossover points - we appreciate your attention to detail. Wondering if they are all measured alike or, ala David Letterman, is there a Top 10 Countdown in there somewhere?
Posted by: hershco | May 06, 2014 at 09:03 AM