With the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

A lot of times when we talk about smaller startup companies looking to grow, we tend to

use the same measuring stick over and over, whether it's growing overall sales or hiring

more people.

We often look for pure growth, but great companies are able to not only grow, but grow the best

parts of their business.

In those cases, subtraction can be even more effective than addition.

Bob Sutton is a professor at Stanford University and a New York Times best-selling author.

Last year I got the chance to talk with Bob in front of a live audience about his book,

scaling up excellence, getting to more without settling for less.

And when companies are looking to scale up, getting rid of their bad parts is more important

than you might think.

There's a famous management book, some of you may have heard of, I think the best-selling

of all time, perhaps, good to great by Jim Collins.

So our mantra is, it's the opposite, it's bad to great.

So when you look at situations where you want to spread something good, the first order

of business is to get rid of bad stuff.

And if you want to go to some of the basic social psychology, you kind of think of some

of the elements of your life.

First of all, let's start with your personal relationships, because that's a good place

to start.

There's great long-term studies that show that the studies happen to be of long-term

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