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Bob Sutton

Bob Sutton

Organizational Psychologist & Bestselling Author

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I am an organizational psychologist and Stanford professor, and New York Times bestselling author. My books, articles, and speeches focus on changing organizations for the better, leading with competence and kindness, and building workplaces that don’t drive people crazy.

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The Friction Project

Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers,” so that teams and organizations don’t squander the zeal, damage the health, and throttle the creativity and productivity of good people—or burn through cash and other precious resources.  

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Bob Sutton speaks about changing organizations for the better— including his seven-year friction project (on making the right things easier and the wrong things harder), scaling up excellence, and leading at scale. And about the fundamentals for modern leadership.

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