Sally Hogshead, a writer/blogger from AdAge, posted this question on Facebook:
Would you rather work for a talented jerk or a sweetheart hack?
Interesting question….and I’m sure, like me, you’ve worked for both. Sally found that most comments/posts she received thought that working for a talented jerk was much better for their career. Let’s just hope you are not currently working for someone who is jerk and a hack! (and if you are, please remember that there are Las Vegas employers still hiring.)
I thought this quote from the article really sums it up though (and full disclosure, my first job out of college within two weeks after moving to Los Angeles was at DDB Worldwide):
Bob Kuperman, former president-CEO DDB Worldwide, New York, quoted the ultimate source, Bill Bernbach: “We have two requisites for people working at Doyle Dane Bernbach. Number one, they have to be nice people. And number two, they have to have a lot of talent. I’m sorry for the nice guy who doesn’t have talent, but that’s bad for my business. And I don’t give a damn how much talent the son-of-a-bitch has. I don’t want him. Life is too short.”
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