Bob Sutton (Stanford University) - Scaling Up Excellence

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 12 February 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Stanford Professor Bob Sutton shares principles and colorful examples from his most recent book, Scaling Up Excellence, co-authored by Huggy Rao. Touching on concepts around emotion, complexity, and connecting people, Sutton explains why scaling is about spreading and sustaining a mindset, not just a footprint.

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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.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It's my sincere pleasure to welcome Professor Bob Sutton, a colleague.
0:23.6	He's been at Stanford as an academic for 30 years.
0:28.6	But what's always inspiring to me is that he's so applied and so practical.
0:34.6	I use this stuff all the time. And we may call this the entrepreneurial thought
0:40.0	leader seminars series, seminar series, but I can't say, let me try that again. We may call it
0:46.9	the thought leader seminar series, but when it's Bob Sutton, it's truly thought-provoking.
0:54.1	So welcome Bob Sutton to his own department.
0:57.4	Thank you.
0:59.4	Thank you for the round of applause.
1:03.7	It's great to see all of you.
1:05.9	This is my fourth thought leader's event.
1:09.5	And it just still warms my heart to see Tom, because I still remember about, was that about
1:14.3	20 years ago when you first started calling with all those crazy ideas?
1:17.5	So where Tom sort of, I don't know where he came from, but one day he started calling
1:20.5	me and started saying, we're going to build the greatest entrepreneurship center in the world.
1:24.8	And I thought he was just this crazy person from industry who was looking for a place to hide.
1:28.3	But I just actually think Tom with a whole bunch of other people, Tina came aboard quickly,
1:32.3	it's actually happened.
1:33.3	And I just sort of stay out of the way because I don't like working as hard as they do or with all those other people.
1:39.3	Tom's always around other people. I like being alone.
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