Advice for Life: Don’t Be a Dick: Your Surprisingly Effective Life and Leadership Strategy

I’m calling a spade a spade. There’s a lot of dickishness in the world.

Sometimes it’s loud and unmistakable, like a public transport phone-shouter.

Other times it’s sneakier: cloaked in “I’m just playing devil’s advocate,” “I didn’t mean to,” or the classic “you’re being too sensitive.”

That’s why I’m proposing a deceptively simple mantra. A universal co…