Bob Sutton (Stanford University), Patty McCord (Patty McCord Consulting) - ETL Takeover: A Taste of FRICTION

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This special episode gives you a taste of eCorner's new podcast for the summer, FRICTION. Stanford Engineering Professor Bob Sutton interviews acclaimed leadership consultant Patty McCord. The former chief talent officer of Netflix speaks bluntly about how backstabbing, passive-aggressive behavior and overall coddling of employees are all bad for businesses — and how actual grown-ups can hear and handle the truth, even when they disagree. In other words, startups may want to downplay the free food, beer and haircuts and start hiring and treating workers like the adults they need to thrive long term.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.4	Hi, everyone. I'm Matt Harvey, a member of the Stanford E-Corner team.
0:21.5	We know it's a long, hot summer waiting for new episodes of the DFJ Entrepreneurant Thought Leaders series.
0:26.8	So today, we thought we'd bring you a taste of something a little different.
0:30.5	The Friction Podcast is the newest offering from E-Corner and features Stanford Engineering Professor Bob Sutton.
0:36.4	Bob's a New York Times best-selling author of such titles as Scaling Up Excellence,
0:40.5	The No-Asshole Rule, and the upcoming The Asshole Survival Guide.
0:44.4	In this podcast, Bob brings in venture capitalists, technology leaders,
0:48.1	and world-class researchers to discuss organizational friction.
0:51.7	Friction is that drag, that feeling of walking in the muck that slows down
0:55.2	teams and organizations and can even cause them to fail. If you've ever felt it, you know what we're
0:59.8	talking about. Each episode features raw, hilarious stories from the front lines of work. Now, you may
1:05.3	not want to listen to this with kids in the car, but it might give you some ideas on how to deal
1:09.2	with a micromanaging boss or a co-worker
1:11.3	that seems entirely focused on making your life difficult. If you enjoy this episode,
1:16.2	subscribe to the podcast and rate and review it on iTunes. And now, The Friction Podcast.
1:22.2	It's not anything you write down on the slide. It's what you do. And I hold my CEO's little faces in my hands, and I look them in the eyes, and I say, the job of creating a culture is yours and yours alone forever.
1:41.0	Friction is a huge psychological burden.
1:45.0	Without friction, we would not have fire and we would not have sparks.
1:49.6	I got to get a knife.
1:51.5	I got to hide it.
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