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...
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...
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...
Bob Sutton posts about why generalists are less grumpy than specialists. The answer is somewhat intuitive but worth remembering: when your eggs are in more baskets you mitigate the risk of being crushed when any one basket blows up. He quotes:Generalists, people withmoderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be...
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...
The latest issue of ChangeThis, the online journal that "The No Asshole Rule" author Bob Sutton says looks "more interesting than the typical Harvard Business Review," trains its wide lens on the subject of viral marketing, with a piece by David Meerman Scott. "The New Rules of...
A new poll released by the Employment Law Alliance last week found that 45 percent of American workers say that they've worked in an abusive workplace. And surprise, surprise, most of the complaints are about bosses and managers. Bob Sutton, author of "The No Asshole Rule," says that companies that allow...
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...
Dream jobs quickly become crummy jobs when companies are struggling to stay afloat. Here are five telltale signs that recession is affecting your job. Crummy Factor #1: Budget Ax Severs Emotional Ties Day-to-Day Impact: Loyalty goes by the wayside. When employees are...
During a downturn, the usual rules of the workplace change dramatically. Here’s how to keep your team motivated and productive. Set the Tone Goal: Lower the anxiety level in the office by being candid about...
