I am an attack dog when it comes to stupid behavior by Larry Winget:

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I am an attack dog when it comes to stupid behavior.  After all, I have trademarked, The Pitbull of Personal Development®.  I even encourage others to become pitbulls in their own way and to attack when confronted by rude, absurd, stupid behavior.  I find that people often are confused by my confrontational style and sometimes miss my intent.  Based on that, some people consider my attacks to be either rude, condescending, or personal.  I can assure you that is not the case.  I never attack another human being on a personal level.  I do, however, feel I have the right to attack the behavior of an individual or an organization.

I recently watched a segment of 60 Minutes with Supreme Court Justice Scalia.  Justice Scalia was talking about his very close friend, Justice Ginsberg and how they have such an unlikely friendship.  After all, you have Scalia, a right wing conservative and Ginsberg, a left wing liberal.  Scalia said, "I attack ideas, not people, and there are very good people with very bad ideas."  I like that line.  I hope I do the same.  At least that is my intent: I want the ability to rise above behavior and enjoy people while still being able to consider that their actions are stupid, detrimental, idiotic, rude and sometimes seemingly insane.

I covered this concept in my book, It's Called Work For A Reason.  As an employer, you have the right to both monitor and enforce your position regarding an employee's behavior.  If you don't like the behavior, you can attack it and correct it and work on that behavior until you get it the way you want it to be since you are paying for it.  If you can't fix the behavior, the employee should be fired so they can go someplace where their behavior fits the job better than it did for you.  I just want to make sure that the attack is only about the behavior and to make certain it is not about the employee.  If you don't like the person, that is not part of the deal, you aren't paying for their personality.  You are paying for that person's results . . . period.  Manage and judge the worth of an employee based on their results - not their personality. 

The same applies to raising children.  When your kid messes up (and they will) you don't attack the kid.  You simply attack the kid's behavior.   The reality of life is that we all do stupid things.  The key is to attack the action or the behavior or the result, but not the person.

In my new book, People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It: The Ten Ways You Are Sabotaging Yourself and How To Overcome Them, I attack the behavior of people by pointing out the stupid things we do to sabotage our success personally, professionally and financially.  I hit health, parenting, business, traveling, marriage - you name it, I attack it.  I cover the ten way people are ruining their lives from ignorance to laziness to poor role models and lack of goals.  This is not your typical self-help book but instead REAL-help - and it's not for sissies!