Bob Sutton: Mastering Organizational Friction for Better Leadership
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Remarkable People, join host Guy Kawasaki as he engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Bob Sutton, a renowned organizational psychologist, best-selling author, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. Together, they explore the intricacies of organizational behavior, leadership, and workplace dynamics. Sutton shares insights from his latest book, "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder," challenging conventional wisdom about efficiency and productivity. Discover how to identify and eliminate bad friction while cultivating good friction in your organization. From the science of assholes to the art of savoring, this episode offers practical wisdom for leaders, managers, and anyone looking to create more effective and humane workplaces. Learn how to navigate the complexities of modern organizations and champion a new era of leadership that prioritizes both productivity and people.
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| 0:44.6 | I'm Guy Kawasaki. |
| 0:51.0 | This is remarkable people. |
| 0:53.2 | We're on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Bob Sutton. |
| 1:01.2 | Bob is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author. He's known for his work on leadership, |
| 1:08.3 | innovation, and workplace dynamics. |
| 1:17.0 | He and I go back a long way, and we are both students in the science of assholes. |
| 1:21.4 | Not in the medical sense, more in the behavior sense. |
| 1:26.4 | He's even written a book on the subject called the No Asshole Rule. |
| 1:32.7 | Bob was a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford from 1983 to 23. He is currently a professor emeritus there. His current book, The Friction Project, |
| 1:40.6 | How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong the wrong things harder is a must read. |
| 1:46.9 | Today we are going to discuss good friction and bad friction and assholes. |
| 1:53.5 | I'm Guy Kawasaki. |
| 1:55.3 | This is remarkable people. |
| 1:57.2 | And now here is the remarkable Bob Sutton. |
| 2:07.4 | We got to go backwards in time a little bit. |
| 2:10.0 | We got to catch up. |
| 2:11.1 | So explain how many took the arse test, the asshole test. |
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