Bob Sutton will discuss his ongoing work with Hayagreeva Rao on scaling-up excellence – the challenge of spreading superior ideas, practices, and talents from the few to the many. He just received a contract to begin writing a book based on these research finding (tentatively) called From the Few to the Many: Scaling-Up Excellence.
Professor Sutton is encouraging the SBODN group to come ready to critique and elaborate on his ideas and recommendations!
"I had the pleasure of working with Bob on a couple of projects at Stanford. His engaging and witty stories will draw you in while his in-depth research and insightful observations will blow you away. Known for his straight shooting style, be prepared for a double dose of reality and ideas on how to put these insights into action tomorrow!" - Jeff Richardson (SBODN Director)
Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and a Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford. Sutton has been teaching classes on the psychology of business and management at Stanford since 1983.
Sutton studies innovation, leaders and bosses, evidence-based management, the links between knowledge and organizational action, and workplace civility. He has published over 100 articles and chapters on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and the popular press. Sutton’s books include
2 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers
- Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…. and Survive the Worst are both
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t a
in addition to...
- Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management (also with Jeffrey Pfeffer)
- The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge into Action (with Jeffrey Pfeffer)
- Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Professor Sutton’s honors include the award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal in 1989, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, selection by Business 2.0 as a leading “management guru” in 2002, and the award for the best article published in the Academy of Management Review in 2005. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense was selected as the best business book of 2006 by the Toronto Globe and Mail. Sutton was named as one of 10 “B-School All-Stars” by BusinessWeek in 2007, which they described as “professors who are influencing contemporary business thinking far beyond academia.” Sutton is a Fellow at IDEO and a member of the Institute for the Future’s board of directors. His personal blog is Work Matters, at www.bobsutton.net and he tweets at work_matters.
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Upcoming Events....
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June - Aug program updates coming soon...
Leadership Challenge - 7th Edition Book Launch
Monday, Sept 10th at 5:30 to 7:15 PM (PST)
Jim Kouzes - Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University
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