Bob Sutton

Organizational Psychologist & Bestselling Author

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Doonesbury

Doonesbury

Doonesbury
Best books of 2024: Business

Best books of 2024: Business

Financial Times
Fighting Friction: A Conversation with Bob Sutton

Fighting Friction: A Conversation with Bob Sutton

Jump Podcast
Bob Sutton Shares How To Thwart Friction In The Friction Project

Bob Sutton Shares How To Thwart Friction In The Friction Project

Forbes
How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

Financial Times
There Is No Secret Formula. Effective Leaders Need To Master Mode Shifting.

There Is No Secret Formula. Effective Leaders Need To Master Mode Shifting.

DigitalTonto
How to prevent jargon monoxide and minimize employee friction

How to prevent jargon monoxide and minimize employee friction

Ragan
From Sludge to Success

From Sludge to Success

Strategy + Business
Bob Sutton: The power of subtraction in the world of SaaS

Bob Sutton: The power of subtraction in the world of SaaS

The Works
The Next Big Idea Club’s 2 Official Selections for Season 23

The Next Big Idea Club’s 2 Official Selections for Season 23

Next Big Ideal Club
Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

Hidden Brain
Family Action Network

Family Action Network

Family Action Network
The C.E.O.s Who Just Won’t Quit

The C.E.O.s Who Just Won’t Quit

NY Times
What's Next! with Tiffani Bova

What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova

What's Next! with Tiffani Bova
Evergreen Journal

Evergreen Journal

The Tugboat Institute
How to Eliminate the Forces That Make It Harder or Downright Impossible to Get Things Done

How to Eliminate the Forces That Make It Harder or Downright Impossible to Get Things Done

From Day One
How to make the right things easier and wrong things harder

How to make the right things easier and wrong things harder

Fixable
Know where to eliminate friction and where to add it in your organization

Know where to eliminate friction and where to add it in your organization

The Globe and Mail
How to be a friction fixer in the workplace

How to be a friction fixer in the workplace

RNZ
Stanford professors share 5 friction-busting mindset shifts to fast-track productivity

Stanford professors share 5 friction-busting mindset shifts to fast-track productivity

Fast Company
How to get your boss to take work off your plate

How to get your boss to take work off your plate

Fast Company
7 sneaky ways friction is making your work life harder

7 sneaky ways friction is making your work life harder

Atlassian Work Life
One of a leader’s most important roles is to be a steward of other people’s time.

One of a leader’s most important roles is to be a steward of other people’s time.

LinkedIn
If It’s The Right Kind, Workplace Friction Is A Good Thing

If It’s The Right Kind, Workplace Friction Is A Good Thing

Forbes
Stevo's Novel Ideas

Stevo’s Novel Ideas

Stevo's Novel Ideals
We Need To Embrace The Genius Of The Obvious

We Need To Embrace The Genius Of The Obvious

DigitalTonto
How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions

How do you become a friction fixer at work? Professor Bob Sutton has some suggestions

ABC Australia
Author Talks: Got friction? Stanford’s Robert I. Sutton shares what you can do about it

Author Talks: Got friction? Stanford’s Robert I. Sutton shares what you can do about it

McKinsey & Company
If It’s The Right Kind, Workplace Friction Is A Good Thing

If It’s The Right Kind, Workplace Friction Is A Good Thing

Forbes
The Best Leaders Are Trustees of Others’ Time

The Best Leaders Are Trustees of Others’ Time

Meikles and Dimes
8 Times You Should Slow Way Down at Work, According to a Stanford Management Expert

8 Times You Should Slow Way Down at Work, According to a Stanford Management Expert

Inc.
Friction in business isn’t always bad. Timely intervention can help prevent a Boeing-like mistake

Friction in business isn’t always bad. Timely intervention can help prevent a Boeing-like mistake

Fortune
Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Live with Kevin
Every Corporation Needs a Marie Kondo

Every Corporation Needs a Marie Kondo

Bloomberg
Why ‘sh*t-fixers’ make the best managers

Why ‘sh*t-fixers’ make the best managers

Working It
Good Vs. Bad Friction: How To Use Organizational Friction To Simplify Leadership Processes & Boost Performance | Bob Sutton

Good Vs. Bad Friction: How To Use Organizational Friction To Simplify Leadership Processes & Boost Performance | Bob Sutton

Great Leadership Podcast
emails — just some of the most common workplace frictions

emails — just some of the most common workplace frictions

Business Insider
How Companies Say ‘Layoffs’ Without Saying ‘Layoffs’

How Companies Say ‘Layoffs’ Without Saying ‘Layoffs’

Bloomberg
Commonwealth Club

Commonwealth Club

Commonweath Club
Mass Layoffs Shouldn’t Be Routine

Mass Layoffs Shouldn’t Be Routine

Bloomberg
People Managing People Podcast

People Managing People Podcast

People Managing People Podcast
Business Insider

Business Insider

Business Insider
Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

Think Fast Think Smart
8 Times You Should Slow Way Down at Work, According to a Stanford Management Expert

8 Times You Should Slow Way Down at Work, According to a Stanford Management Expert

Inc.
How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

This Working Life
Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit]

Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit]

ecorner
Live Greatly Podcast

Live Greatly Podcast

Live Greatly Podcast
Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant
HBR IdeaCast

HBR IdeaCast

HBR IdeaCast
Why leaders should act as “editor in chief” of their organizations

Why leaders should act as “editor in chief” of their organizations

Big Think
Second City Works

Second City Works

Second City Works
Forbes

Forbes

Forbes
Thinkers & Ideas

Thinkers & Ideas

Thinkers & Ideas
Creative Confidence Podcast

Creative Confidence Podcast

Creative Confidence Podcast
Financial Times

Financial Times

Financial Times
Has Your Workload Gotten Out of Hand? This Stanford Professor May Know Why

Has Your Workload Gotten Out of Hand? This Stanford Professor May Know Why

Katie Couric Media
Leveraging Friction in Your Organization

Leveraging Friction in Your Organization

Outthinkers
Adam Grant picks The Friction Book as a top book in 2024

Adam Grant picks The Friction Book as a top book in 2024

Adam Grant
The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk

The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk

The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk
Overcoming Overwhelm at Work with Bob Sutton & Rebecca Hinds

Overcoming Overwhelm at Work with Bob Sutton & Rebecca Hinds

NRW Labs Podcast
Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Commonwealth Club
Workplace Friction: How to Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Workplace Friction: How to Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Grit & Growth Podcast by Stanford Business
Workplace Burnout, by the Book

Workplace Burnout, by the Book

Publisher's Weekly
Assembly Required: Building the Creative Team

Assembly Required: Building the Creative Team

Documentary "Assembly Required"
Publisher's Weekly

Publisher’s Weekly

Publisher's Weekly
Bob Sutton

How important are middle managers?

Human Resources Director
Bob Sutton

How important are middle managers?

Human Resources Director
Meikles & Dimes

Meikles & Dimes

Meikles & Dimes
PSYCHOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS If a meeting is wasting your time, leave, says Stanford business prof: ‘I’m a big believer in walking out of things'

PSYCHOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS If a meeting is wasting your time, leave, says Stanford business prof: ‘I’m a big believer in walking out of things’

CNBC
In Tech, Repeat Rounds Of Job Cuts Make ‘Rolling Layoffs’ A New Reality

In Tech, Repeat Rounds Of Job Cuts Make ‘Rolling Layoffs’ A New Reality

Forbes
Less Responsibility Can Mean More Innovation

Less Responsibility Can Mean More Innovation

Municipal Sewer & Water
5 ways to fix 'wasteful and soul-crushing' meetings

5 ways to fix ‘wasteful and soul-crushing’ meetings

Advisory Board
Does your team need a meeting reset?

Does your team need a meeting reset?

Quartz
This Book Can Teach You How to Generate Ideas

This Book Can Teach You How to Generate Ideas

Inc.com
How not to fire people

How not to fire people

Financial Times
Hayagreeva Rao: The Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Hayagreeva Rao: The Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

Stanford Business
How to Deal With A**holes

How to Deal With A**holes

Kyiv Post
The limits of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s power

The limits of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s power

Fortune
Why your chief diversity officer needs to be part of the return-to-office discussion

Why your chief diversity officer needs to be part of the return-to-office discussion

Fortune
Rules of Civility in a Sometimes-Uncivilized World

Rules of Civility in a Sometimes-Uncivilized World

Smerconish.com
Performance Reviews Are Broken. Here's a 3-Step Approach for Getting More Actionable Feedback

Performance Reviews Are Broken. Here’s a 3-Step Approach for Getting More Actionable Feedback

Inc.com
Work Is Overrated

Work Is Overrated

Work is Overrated Podcast
Is there power in knowing you’re a bad person?

Is there power in knowing you’re a bad person?

The Sydney Morning Herald
Arrogant leaders continue to rise. Here’s how to deal with one.

Arrogant leaders continue to rise. Here’s how to deal with one.

Fast Company
Victims of workplace bullying are still let down by poor management

Victims of workplace bullying are still let down by poor management

Financial Post
The Future of Work Seminar

The Future of Work Seminar

Teamraderie
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing

‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing

New York Times
To Reduce A High Invisible Cost, Weed Out Toxic Employees

To Reduce A High Invisible Cost, Weed Out Toxic Employees

Forbes
Be Better at Work: How to Communicate Better with Coworkers and Employees

Be Better at Work: How to Communicate Better with Coworkers and Employees

Stanford Business
The 7 hallmarks of good leadership in the pandemic

The 7 hallmarks of good leadership in the pandemic

Fast Company
How a company chooses its managers says a lot about its tolerance for workplace toxicity

How a company chooses its managers says a lot about its tolerance for workplace toxicity

Quartz
Robert Sutton on Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders

Robert Sutton on Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders

The Psychology Podcast
How to Be a Good Boss in Trying Times

How to Be a Good Boss in Trying Times

Standford Business
How Great Leaders Set the Tempo of Change

How Great Leaders Set the Tempo of Change

IDEO
Michael Jordan: N.B.A. Champ, Marketing Legend and … Toxic Worker?

Michael Jordan: N.B.A. Champ, Marketing Legend and … Toxic Worker?

New York Times
The Power-Up Sequence: Addressing the Organizational Costs of Covid-19 Lockdown

The Power-Up Sequence: Addressing the Organizational Costs of Covid-19 Lockdown

Bain & Company
Replacing Smart Talk with Smart Action

Replacing Smart Talk with Smart Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Act Now!

Act Now!

Invision Magazine
The No. 1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

The No. 1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

Government Executive
Scaling Starts with Agency

Scaling Starts with Agency

Stanford
Take Your Victory Lap, Elon Musk

Take Your Victory Lap, Elon Musk

Wall Street Journal
What Makes Some People Such Bad Bosses?

What Makes Some People Such Bad Bosses?

The Cut
Managers must unclog staff diaries to let work flow free

Managers must unclog staff diaries to let work flow free

Financial Times
The office without a**holes

The Office Without Assholes

TED.com
Overcoming Cultural and Technical Debt

Overcoming Cultural and Technical Debt

MIT Sloan Review
The Good Way to Fire a Bad Employee

The Good Way to Fire a Bad Employee

Slate
How to Deal With a Jerk Without Being a Jerk

How to Deal With a Jerk Without Being a Jerk

New York Times
A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

Vox
How to Deal with Assholes

How to Deal with Assholes

Goop.com
The story of a CEO who liked blueberry muffins highlights a dangerous trap that catches too many bosses

The story of a CEO who liked blueberry muffins highlights a dangerous trap that catches too many bosses

Business Insider
What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture

What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture

Atlassian

Bad Bosses: Dealing with Abusive Supervisors

Knowable Magazine
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

Quartz
Difficult People

Difficult People

Harvard Business Review
The Ski Team That Sleeps Together Wins a Lot of Gold Medals Together

The Ski Team That Sleeps Together Wins a Lot of Gold Medals Together

New York Times
Bob Sutton | The Asshole Survival Guide

Bob Sutton | The Asshole Survival Guide

The Jordan Harbinger Show
Stanford psychologist shares 5 mental strategies for dealing with a toxic coworker

Stanford psychologist shares 5 mental strategies for dealing with a toxic coworker

CNBC
Harvey Weinstein is also a jerk. That alone should have gotten him fired.

Harvey Weinstein is also a jerk. That alone should have gotten him fired.

Washington Post
This Stanford Professor Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks

This Stanford Professor Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks

New York Magazine

a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide

a16z Podcast
Leaders Should Heed This Plea For Greater Civility At Work

Leaders Should Heed This Plea For Greater Civility At Work

Forbes

On Leadership + Organizational Life

IDEO Futures Podcast
How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review
Why a toxic workplace is now a much bigger liability for companies

Why a toxic workplace is now a much bigger liability for companies

Washington Post
Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vulnerable apology makes him a strong leader

Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vulnerable apology makes him a strong leader

CNBC
How to identify and remove 5 common causes of organizational drag

How to identify and remove 5 common causes of organizational drag

HR Drive
Business: How to topple bureaucracy

Business: How to topple bureaucracy

Financial Times
Is it better for your career if you work for a 'bad boss'?

Is it better for your career if you work for a ‘bad boss’?

The Telegraph

Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Strategy + Business
Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Strategy-Business.com
How to Grow Without Losing What Makes You Great

How to Grow Without Losing What Makes You Great

Inc
Fight Like You're Right, Listen Like You're Wrong and Other Keys to Great Management

Fight Like You’re Right, Listen Like You’re Wrong and Other Keys to Great Management

First Round Review