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 Asshole Survival Guide provides the best advice I can muster for people who are feeling oppressed, demeaned, or disrespected by assholes.

In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: scaling up farther, faster, and more effectively as a program or an organization creates a larger footprint.

If you are a boss who wants to do great work, what can you do about it? Good Boss, Bad Boss is devoted to answering that question.

Why assholes can ruin your workplace and how to build a more civilized team or organization.

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.

Use evidence to make decisions and manage your team or organization; not just intuition, imitation, or industry myths.

How leaders and teams can turn knowledge into organizational action.