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- Sutton: Calculate Your "Total Cost of Jerks"
- The Find: If you really want to motivate yourself and your company to root out jerks and their productivity and creativity sucking behavior, one business guru suggest you calculate your TCJ: total cost of jerks. The Source: An article entitled "Building the Civilized Workplace" by No Asshole...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
- Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer What Constitutes Bullying? Common wisdom used to be that...
- Articles 2008-10-20
- Pfeffer: Freedom is the Cost of Power
- The Find: Management guru Jeff Pfeffer knows how you can boost your power within an organization, but he also knows super-charging your influence at work comes at a cost: freedom. The Source: Stanford Professor Bob Sutton quoting Pfeffer, author of Managing with Power, on his blog Work...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Sutton: Are Performance Reviews Really Essential?
- The Find: Business guru Bob Sutton uses his blog today not only to endorse Samuel Culbert's suggestion in the WSJ that we radically rethink performance reviews, but also to urge managers to question the value of the purportedly essential. The Source: Sutton's Work Matters blog. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Jobs: Kill Your Good Ideas
- The Find: According to an anecdote told to Bob Sutton, Steve Jobs recommends not only ruthlessly killing bad ideas, but also axing many of the good ones to ensure those that survive get all the resources they need to be fully realized. The Source: Sutton's Work Matters...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Stopping Employee Theft: Bob Sutton's Solution
- The Find: Management guru Bob Sutton has found a simple and elegant solution for stopping employee theft cold. The Source: Sutton's Work Matters blog. The Takeaway: In an office, it's hard to get excited about employees walking off with a stapler or a ream...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
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- Bob Sutton: the Dangers of Skilled BS
- The Find: A slick manager who sounds smart may seem like a good thing for a business, but Bob Sutton warns that a boss with extremely good BSing skills can actually be more harm than help to an organization. The Source: Stanford professor and management guru Sutton...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Conduct Unbecoming at Virtuous Costco?
- Any company that's been known to violate what Stanford business professor Bob Sutton infamously calls The No Asshole Rule -- if it hasn't already been held up to shame in his best-selling book of the same name -- can expect to be shamed on a regular basis in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Leadership Lessons from the (Film) Director's Chair
- The Find: Business guru Bob Sutton looks to a classic text on film and stage directing to discuss one leadership lesson directors can teach managers: you spend most of your day performing. The Source: Sutton's Work Matters blog. The Takeaway: Perhaps you haven't spent...
- Blog posts 2008-12-23
- How to Handle a Workplace Bully
- Half of U.S. employees have been bullied at work. Here's how to stop bad behavior before it costs your company big. How to Identify a True Bully Goal: Understand what constitutes bullying and recognize it in action. ...
- Articles 2008-10-20
- More Evidence that Being a Jerk Doesn't Work
- Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, has built a small industry around telling business people not to be assholes. You can check him out explaining the basic idea of his book, "The No Asshole Rule," in this BNET Book Briefing: working with rude, self-obsessed people isn't just aggravating, it's a drain on...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Does the CEO Track Include a Stop in 'Design Thinking'?
- The find: An executive training program at Stanford claims executives can benefit from being taught to tinker like designers. The source: Work Matters, the blog of Bob Sutton, Stanford business school and author of "The No Asshole Rule" and other books. The takeaway: First...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- CEO Survey: Low Marks for Managing Innovation
- Every company aspires to innovate, but relatively few CEOs understand how to foster innovation. Perhaps the most disturbing CEO “blind spot” we found in the BNET survey surrounded the topic of innovation. CEOs and their employees disagreed dramatically as to whether good...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Ten Warning Signs of a Crummy Boss
- The Find: A ten question checklist to help those looking for a job or shopping around for a new department discover if their prospective boss is a jerk or an incompetent. The Source: Management guru Bob Sutton's Work Matters blog. The Takeaway: Right now...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- CEO Survey: Lacking the Human Touch
- Why CEOs lack some critical "soft" skills and don't realize it. When given a list of a dozen words to describe their CEO, only one in five employees picked “caring” or “warm.” (Small wonder that these words were picked twice...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Air Force assistant can go home again
- For Air Force offensive line coach Ed Warinner, this weekend's trip to West Point will bring back not-so-distant memories. Warinner's formative years as a coach came at Army, where he spent the past 13 seasons before moving to Air Force at the beginning of this season....
- Research articles 2000-11-02
- Sutton has big shoes to fill as ARI's new president. (Views and opinions).
- When the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute ARI went looking for a new president, shoe size had to figure into the equation. After all, the person replacing Clifford H. Ted Rees Jr. has big shoes to fill. There is no truth to the rumor that...
- Research articles 2002-03-04
- The Case Against Brainstorming
- The Find: Brainstorming stirs up strong reactions â€" both positive and negative â€" and one blog dedicated to creative thinking is rounding up the case for and against the use of the idea generating technique. The Source: A post by Mark McGuinness on the blog, Lateral Action....
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy | HBR IdeaCast
- Managing people is never easy, but it’s a lot tougher when times are tough. How do you motivate people when they’re distracted by the threat of layoffs, and how do you avoid alienating the employees whose help you need now more than ever? Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- What are America's Stupidest Management Practices?
- Management guru Bob Sutton is off to conference in Singapore this week and on his consistently thought-provoking blog Work Matters he's preparing for the event with a little thought experiment. Namely, he's attempting to brainstorm the stupidest management practices of U.S. companies that remain inexplicably popular despite plenty of evidence...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
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