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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…

6 min readJun 20, 2018

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

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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…

8 min readJun 14, 2018

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

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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…

5 min readMay 30, 2018

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

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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…

3 min readMay 30, 2018

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The FRICTION Podcast: A New Season!

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14 Things I Believe: Updated for 2018

Biased but mostly evidence-based opinions on management and life

6 min readMay 28, 2018

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14 Things I Believe: Updated for 2018

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“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…

4 min readDec 10, 2016

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

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“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…

5 min readNov 23, 2016

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

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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…

5 min readJun 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…

6 min readMay 31, 2016

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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…

9 min readDec 15, 2015

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12 Books That Every Leader Should Read

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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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