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Dear Readers, I stopped blogging here actively about 10 years ago. If you are interested in my newer work, check out bobsutton.net, my posts on
April 20, 2024
Dear Readers, I stopped blogging here actively about 10 years ago. If you are interested in my newer work, check out bobsutton.net, my posts on
The No Asshole Rule was published 10 years ago. It focused on building civilized workplaces. Yet the most frequent question that it provoked were variations
My Stanford colleague Huggy Rao and I devoted seven years to learning about what it takes to scale up excellence in organizations. We studied
The first time I taught an introductory organizational behavior class was in 1980 or 1981. I was a second-year doctoral student in organizational psychology at
I have been maintaining – and occasionally updating — a list of “Books Every Leader Should Read” on this Work Matters blog since 2011. These
I was exchanging emails with a colleague that used to be at the Stanford d.school and now works with schools. He menionted Brad Bird, which
I also posted this piece over at LinkedIn this morning. It offers a simple lesson, but one that is often disregarded, and in turn undermines
A few years back, one of my closest friends at Stanford, Steve Barley, made a comment that I still think of often “If you are
Greg McKeown's publisher sent me an advanced copy of his book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. I said I would look at for a
During the seven years that Huggy Rao and I worked on Scaling Up Excellence, we got involved in some pretty unusual situations – at least for
Phyllis Korkki of the New York Times wrote a piece this Sunday for her Workstation column called Invasion of the Annual Reviews. It emphasizes the
Ed Catmull has been one of my favorite senior executives for a long time. I admired him from afar after reading about him in David