Bob Sutton

Organizational Psychologist & Bestselling Author

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Fighting Friction: A Conversation with Bob Sutton

Fighting Friction: A Conversation with Bob Sutton

Jump Podcast
August 7, 2024
Bob Sutton Shares How To Thwart Friction In The Friction Project

Bob Sutton Shares How To Thwart Friction In The Friction Project

Forbes
August 1, 2024
How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

Financial Times
July 27, 2024
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
July 7, 2024
How to prevent jargon monoxide and minimize employee friction

How to prevent jargon monoxide and minimize employee friction

Ragan
June 12, 2024
From Sludge to Success

From Sludge to Success

Strategy + Business
June 2, 2024
Bob Sutton: The power of subtraction in the world of SaaS

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

The Works
May 27, 2024
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
May 26, 2024
Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

Hidden Brain
May 21, 2024
Family Action Network

Family Action Network

Family Action Network
May 16, 2024
The C.E.O.s Who Just Won’t Quit

The C.E.O.s Who Just Won’t Quit

NY Times
May 9, 2024
What's Next! with Tiffani Bova

What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova

What's Next! with Tiffani Bova
April 4, 2024
Evergreen Journal

Evergreen Journal

The Tugboat Institute
April 2, 2024
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
April 1, 2024
How to make the right things easier and wrong things harder

How to make the right things easier and wrong things harder

Fixable
March 22, 2024
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
March 18, 2024
How to be a friction fixer in the workplace

How to be a friction fixer in the workplace

RNZ
March 11, 2024
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
March 9, 2024
How to get your boss to take work off your plate

How to get your boss to take work off your plate

Fast Company
March 7, 2024
7 sneaky ways friction is making your work life harder

7 sneaky ways friction is making your work life harder

Atlassian Work Life
February 29, 2024
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
February 29, 2024
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
February 27, 2024
Stevo's Novel Ideas

Stevo’s Novel Ideas

Stevo's Novel Ideals
February 26, 2024
We Need To Embrace The Genius Of The Obvious

We Need To Embrace The Genius Of The Obvious

DigitalTonto
February 25, 2024
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
February 24, 2024
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
February 23, 2024
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
February 22, 2024
The Best Leaders Are Trustees of Others’ Time

The Best Leaders Are Trustees of Others’ Time

Meikles and Dimes
February 22, 2024
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.
February 21, 2024
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
February 19, 2024
Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Live with Kevin
February 19, 2024
Every Corporation Needs a Marie Kondo

Every Corporation Needs a Marie Kondo

Bloomberg
February 13, 2024
Why ‘sh*t-fixers’ make the best managers

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

Working It
February 13, 2024
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
February 12, 2024
emails — just some of the most common workplace frictions

emails — just some of the most common workplace frictions

Business Insider
February 10, 2024
How Companies Say ‘Layoffs’ Without Saying ‘Layoffs’

How Companies Say ‘Layoffs’ Without Saying ‘Layoffs’

Bloomberg
February 9, 2024
Commonwealth Club

Commonwealth Club

Commonweath Club
February 9, 2024
Mass Layoffs Shouldn’t Be Routine

Mass Layoffs Shouldn’t Be Routine

Bloomberg
February 5, 2024
People Managing People Podcast

People Managing People Podcast

People Managing People Podcast
February 4, 2024
Business Insider

Business Insider

Business Insider
February 2, 2024
Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your Advantage

Think Fast Think Smart
February 2, 2024
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.
February 1, 2024
How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

This Working Life
February 1, 2024
Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit]

Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit]

ecorner
January 31, 2024
Live Greatly Podcast

Live Greatly Podcast

Live Greatly Podcast
January 31, 2024
Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant
January 30, 2024
HBR IdeaCast

HBR IdeaCast

HBR IdeaCast
January 30, 2024
Why leaders should act as “editor in chief” of their organizations

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

Big Think
January 30, 2024
Second City Works

Second City Works

Second City Works
January 29, 2024
Forbes

Forbes

Forbes
January 29, 2024
Thinkers & Ideas

Thinkers & Ideas

Thinkers & Ideas
January 28, 2024
Creative Confidence Podcast

Creative Confidence Podcast

Creative Confidence Podcast
January 28, 2024
Financial Times

Financial Times

Financial Times
January 24, 2024
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
January 17, 2024
Leveraging Friction in Your Organization

Leveraging Friction in Your Organization

Outthinkers
January 11, 2024
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
January 11, 2024
The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk

The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk

The Learning Leader with Ryan Hawk
December 31, 2023
Overcoming Overwhelm at Work with Bob Sutton & Rebecca Hinds

Overcoming Overwhelm at Work with Bob Sutton & Rebecca Hinds

NRW Labs Podcast
December 18, 2023
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
December 18, 2023
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
December 13, 2023
Workplace Burnout, by the Book

Workplace Burnout, by the Book

Publisher's Weekly
November 10, 2023
Assembly Required: Building the Creative Team

Assembly Required: Building the Creative Team

Documentary "Assembly Required"
November 8, 2023
Publisher's Weekly

Publisher’s Weekly

Publisher's Weekly
November 6, 2023
Bob Sutton

How important are middle managers?

Human Resources Director
August 14, 2023
Bob Sutton

How important are middle managers?

Human Resources Director
August 14, 2023
Meikles & Dimes

Meikles & Dimes

Meikles & Dimes
July 20, 2023
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
April 28, 2023
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
March 24, 2023
Less Responsibility Can Mean More Innovation

Less Responsibility Can Mean More Innovation

Municipal Sewer & Water
January 31, 2023
5 ways to fix 'wasteful and soul-crushing' meetings

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

Advisory Board
January 13, 2023
Does your team need a meeting reset?

Does your team need a meeting reset?

Quartz
January 4, 2023
This Book Can Teach You How to Generate Ideas

This Book Can Teach You How to Generate Ideas

Inc.com
January 4, 2023
How not to fire people

How not to fire people

Financial Times
November 15, 2022
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
November 9, 2022
How to Deal With A**holes

How to Deal With A**holes

Kyiv Post
October 14, 2022
The limits of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s power

The limits of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s power

Fortune
October 4, 2022
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
September 29, 2022
Rules of Civility in a Sometimes-Uncivilized World

Rules of Civility in a Sometimes-Uncivilized World

Smerconish.com
September 10, 2022
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
July 2, 2022
Work Is Overrated

Work Is Overrated

Work is Overrated Podcast
April 1, 2022
Is there power in knowing you’re a bad person?

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

The Sydney Morning Herald
December 23, 2021
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
November 1, 2021
Victims of workplace bullying are still let down by poor management

Victims of workplace bullying are still let down by poor management

Financial Post
July 20, 2021
The Future of Work Seminar

The Future of Work Seminar

Teamraderie
May 5, 2021
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing

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

New York Times
November 25, 2020
To Reduce A High Invisible Cost, Weed Out Toxic Employees

To Reduce A High Invisible Cost, Weed Out Toxic Employees

Forbes
November 20, 2020
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
August 20, 2020
The 7 hallmarks of good leadership in the pandemic

The 7 hallmarks of good leadership in the pandemic

Fast Company
August 20, 2020
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
August 17, 2020
Robert Sutton on Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders

Robert Sutton on Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders

The Psychology Podcast
August 6, 2020
How to Be a Good Boss in Trying Times

How to Be a Good Boss in Trying Times

Standford Business
July 23, 2020
How Great Leaders Set the Tempo of Change

How Great Leaders Set the Tempo of Change

IDEO
June 26, 2020
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
May 16, 2020
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
May 11, 2020
Replacing Smart Talk with Smart Action

Replacing Smart Talk with Smart Action

Stanford Social Innovation Review
March 26, 2020
Act Now!

Act Now!

Invision Magazine
February 25, 2020
The No. 1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

The No. 1 Obstacle to Great Workplace Culture

Government Executive
January 22, 2020
Scaling Starts with Agency

Scaling Starts with Agency

Stanford
January 15, 2020
Take Your Victory Lap, Elon Musk

Take Your Victory Lap, Elon Musk

Wall Street Journal
January 3, 2020
What Makes Some People Such Bad Bosses?

What Makes Some People Such Bad Bosses?

The Cut
November 18, 2019
Managers must unclog staff diaries to let work flow free

Managers must unclog staff diaries to let work flow free

Financial Times
November 17, 2019
The office without a**holes

The Office Without Assholes

TED.com
November 14, 2019
Overcoming Cultural and Technical Debt

Overcoming Cultural and Technical Debt

MIT Sloan Review
November 1, 2019
The Good Way to Fire a Bad Employee

The Good Way to Fire a Bad Employee

Slate
August 6, 2019
How to Deal With a Jerk Without Being a Jerk

How to Deal With a Jerk Without Being a Jerk

New York Times
April 5, 2019
A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

A Stanford psychologist on the art of avoiding assholes

Vox
March 7, 2019
How to Deal with Assholes

How to Deal with Assholes

Goop.com
February 21, 2019
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
August 16, 2018
What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture

What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture

Atlassian
July 19, 2018

Bad Bosses: Dealing with Abusive Supervisors

Knowable Magazine
July 17, 2018
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

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

Quartz
March 16, 2018
Difficult People

Difficult People

Harvard Business Review
February 22, 2018
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
February 15, 2018
Bob Sutton | The Asshole Survival Guide

Bob Sutton | The Asshole Survival Guide

The Jordan Harbinger Show
November 2, 2017
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
October 24, 2017
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
October 20, 2017
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
September 20, 2017

a16z Podcast: The Asshole Survival Guide

a16z Podcast
September 13, 2017
Leaders Should Heed This Plea For Greater Civility At Work

Leaders Should Heed This Plea For Greater Civility At Work

Forbes
August 22, 2017

On Leadership + Organizational Life

IDEO Futures Podcast
April 10, 2017
How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review
March 15, 2017
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
February 24, 2017
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
February 17, 2017
How to identify and remove 5 common causes of organizational drag

How to identify and remove 5 common causes of organizational drag

HR Drive
October 25, 2016
Business: How to topple bureaucracy

Business: How to topple bureaucracy

Financial Times
April 14, 2016
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
January 29, 2016

Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Strategy + Business
July 22, 2014
Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence

Strategy-Business.com
July 22, 2014
How to Grow Without Losing What Makes You Great

How to Grow Without Losing What Makes You Great

Inc
March 1, 2014
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
November 15, 2010