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Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton

Organizational Psychologist & Bestselling Author

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Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers,” so that teams and organizations don’t squander the zeal, damage the health, and throttle the creativity and productivity of good people—or burn through cash and other precious resources.  

The Friction Project

How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
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The Asshole Survival Guide by Robert I. Sutton

The Asshole Survival Guide

"Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do?"
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Scaling Up Excellence by Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao

Scaling Up Excellence

How to spread something good, without messing it up, or your messing up your team or organization.
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Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert I. Sutton

Good Boss, Bad Boss

What does it feel like to work for you? Are you in tune with the people you lead?
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The No-Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton

The No Asshole Rule

Why assholes can ruin your workplace and how to build a more civilized team or organization.
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Weird Ideas That Work by Robert I. Sutton

Weird Ideas That Work

Find some happy people and get them to fight. Hire people who make you uncomfortable. Reward success and failure, punish inaction. These and other ideas might make you squirm, but they spark innovation, too.
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, & Total Nonsense

Use evidence to make decisions and manage your team or organization; not just intuition, imitation, or industry myths.
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The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton

The Knowing-Doing Gap

How leaders and teams can turn knowledge into organizational action.
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