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“Productive Paranoia: Lights, Camera…Anxiety!” Lessons From Making 37 Movies

This week’s episode of our Stanford FRICTION Podcast stars Sheri Singer, who has worked as a TV and film producer since she was 21 years…

Jun 20, 2018

“Productive Paranoia: Lights, Camera…Anxiety!” Lessons From Making 37 Movies

Jun 20, 2018

Yes, That Elephant Can Dance: General Motors Chief Talent Officer on Innovation at Scale

The challenge of injecting innovation into large, staid, and stalled organizations has long vexed leaders, consultants, and academics. The…

Jun 14, 2018

Yes, That Elephant Can Dance: General Motors Chief Talent Officer on Innovation at Scale

Jun 14, 2018

Describe Your Worst People Nightmare. Describe What It Cost You.

That’s the assignment historian Nancy Koehn gives the students in her leadership class at the Harvard Business School. When I interviewed…

May 30, 2018

Describe Your Worst People Nightmare. Describe What It Cost You.

May 30, 2018

The FRICTION Podcast: A New Season!

My co-conspirator Huggy Rao and I are knee-deep into “The Friction Project.” We are studying the causes and cures for bad organizational…

May 30, 2018

The FRICTION Podcast: A New Season!

May 30, 2018

14 Things I Believe: Updated for 2018

Biased but mostly evidence-based opinions on management and life

May 28, 2018

14 Things I Believe: Updated for 2018

May 28, 2018

“The Best You Can Be Is A Perfect Imitation Of Those Who Came Before You”

I am on a committee at Stanford where we are trying to do something new (sorry, I must keep it vague). We’ve been working on the paperwork…

Dec 10, 2016

“The Best You Can Be Is A Perfect Imitation Of Those Who Came Before You”

Dec 10, 2016

“The knowledge that I have got enough” Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Heller, and a Thanksgiving Message

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I was thinking of everything in my life that I am grateful for, just as many of you are thinking about this…

Nov 23, 2016

“The knowledge that I have got enough” Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Heller, and a Thanksgiving Message

Nov 23, 2016

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Want Some Creativity? Crank-up the Constraints

Research on creativity and innovation provides an enlightening perspective on constraints. On first blush, it may seem that imagination…

Jun 10, 2016

Want Some Creativity? Crank-up the Constraints

Jun 10, 2016

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Engineering as a Driving Force Behind the Design-Thinking Movement

It’s wonderful that design thinking is now applied to so many different problems: designing better experiences for hospital patients…

May 31, 2016

Engineering as a Driving Force Behind the Design-Thinking Movement

May 31, 2016

12 Books That Every Leader Should Read

I have been maintaining — and occasionally updating — a list of “Books That Every Leader Should Read” on my Work Matters blog since 2011…

Dec 15, 2015

12 Books That Every Leader Should Read

Dec 15, 2015

Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton

Stanford Professor who studies organizations. Books include Good Boss Bad Boss, The No Asshole Rule, The Knowing-Doing Gap, and Scaling Up Excellence

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