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12 Things I Believe
- 1. Sometimes the best management is no management at all -- first do no harm!
- 2. Indifference is as important as passion.
- 3. Saying smart things and giving smart answers are important. Learning to listen to others and to ask smart questions is more important.
- 4. You get what you expect from people. This is especially true when it comes to selfish behavior; unvarnished self-interest is a learned social norm, not an unwavering feature of human behavior.
- 5. Avoid pompous jerks whenever possible. They not only can make you feel bad about yourself, chances are that you will eventually start acting like them.
- 6. Anyone can learn to be creative, it just takes a lot of practice and little confidence
- 7. "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
- 8. Sutton's Law: “If you think that you have a new idea, you are wrong. Someone else probably already had it. This idea isn’t original either; I stole it from someone else”
- 9. "Am I a success or a failure?" is not a very useful question
- 10. The world would be a better place if people slept more and took more naps
- 11. Strive for simplicity and competence, but embrace the confusion and messiness along the way.
- 12. Jimmy Maloney is right, work is an overrated activity.
My Writing and Ranting
- How Evidence-Based Management Pays Off - NYTimes
- Bad Apples: New York Times
- Separating the best CEOs from the dolts| Financial Times
- How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy| Featured HBR Article
- Comment on "CEO's guide to reenergizing the senior team" in the McKinsey Quarterly
- Foreword toThe Peter Principle: Reprinted in BusinessWeek
- In Praise of Simple Competence -- Opinion -- BusinessWeek
- The Layoff: Harvard Business Review Case and Comments
- The ergonomics of innovation -- The McKinsey Quarterly
- BusinessWeek: Are You Being a Jerk? Again?
- interview Pixar Brad Bird - Innovation lessons from Pixar Director Brad Bird - Strategy - Innovation - The McKinsey Quarterly
- Why Managing by Facts Works: Strategy+Business
- Interview with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker:The McKinsey Quarterly
- Greater Good: Are You a Jerk? Special Issue on Power
- The Decent Thing to Call My Book - Publishers Weekly
- Fast Breaking Comment by Fabrizio Ferraro, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Robert I. Sutton
- Weird Rules of Creativity - Think You Manage Creativity? Here's Why You're Wrong - HBS Working Knowledge
- April 2007: Tips for dealing with workplace jerks
- Forbes.com Video Network: Weed Out the Bad Seed
- NPR : Weighing the Pros and Cons of Office Romances
- Stanford School of Engineering - Ask The Expert
- Act on Facts, Not Faith
- Why Managing by Facts Works
- Eight Tips for Better Brainstorming
- Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?
- Prove It
- The Case for Evidence-Based Management
- 800CEORead on Hard Facts
- YouTube - Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths ...
- Headlines - Untested Beliefs and Half Truths Pass as Management Gospel - Stanford GSB
Press Room
- The Apple effect: CSMonitor.com
- Good bosses know when to get out of the way: Financial Post
- Bad Bosses Beware -- ABC News
- Review and Comment | Peter Sims | Reuters.com
- Bad boss syndrome can feed on itself in a vicious cycle - The Globe and Mail
- Good boss, bad boss | Financial Post
- Getting around a bad boss - The Globe and Mail
- How to Rebound From a Wrong Career Choice - NYTimes
- The Problem With With Women Bosses -- Human Resource Executive
- Power Players And Profanity -- NPR All Things Considered
- Six Business Books to Read on the Beach -- Wall Street Journal
- Banishing the Office Jerks, Avoiders & Martyrs - WSJ.com
- AP: Dealing With a Burned-Out Boss is Tricky
- Get Rid Of Jackass Clients - Forbes.com
- Business Daily - True leaders focus on followers, not themselves
- Manage Office Bullies - WSJ.com
- Luck Inc. - The Boston Globe
- A New Look at Dr. Peter's Useful, Hilarious Classic - BusinessWeek
- Financial sector: however good the pay, it doesn't buy results | Business | The Observer
- FT.com | Management Blog | Pick of the week
- Your new-age workforce - NYTimes.com
- How to hire a star, not a prima donna | News.com.au
- Why CEOs soft-pedal layoffs: Fortune Magazine
- IBM Reshapes Its Sales Meetings - BusinessWeek
- Management maxims in need of a makeover - US News and World Report
- Globe and Mail: The Best You Can Be Is a Perfect Imitation of Those Who Came Before You
- Oprah.com. The Knowing-Doing Gap: How to Stop Procrastinating
- The maverick mantra
- BusinessWeek: How to Make Meetings Matter
- Evidence-based HR management is the only way forward
- New York Times: After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again
- BusinessWeek: B-School All-Stars
- Financial Times: The Cost of Hidden Bias at Work
- BusinessWeek:Powerful Profs
- WSJ CareerJournal | Why Preparing for Failure Can Bring You Success
- BusinessWeek: The Name of the Game Is Work
- WSJ CareerJournal | Though Now Routine, Bosses Still Stumble During the Layoff Process
- WSJ.com:Now, It's Business By Data
- globeandmail.com: Hard facts about this year's books
- Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online
- BusinessWeek Recommends this blog
- BusinessWeek: The Talent Hunt
- BusinessWeek: Eight Rules To Brilliant Brainstorming
- BusinessWeek: The Truth About Brainstorming
- The Observer | Business | You could be a genius - if only you had a good system
- NPR : Hollywood Tolerates Strange Behavior, Up to a Point
- How do you say no to a Yes Man?
- Nasty Boss Phenom
- The Observer |Bosses in love with claptrap and blinded by ideologies
- USNews.com: Management maxims in need of a makeover
My Places
Stanford Executive Programs
Good Books
- Adam M. Grant Ph.D.: Give and Take
Matthew May: The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything
Geoffrey Nunberg: Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
J. Keith Murnighan: Do Nothing!: How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader
Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Robert I. Sutton: Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
Marc Gillinov M.D.: Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need
Chip Conley: Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
Chip Conley: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
Michael Maccoby: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails
Adam Lashinsky: Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works
David Novak: Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen
James Adams: Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality
Robert I. Sutton: Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
- David A Owens: Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
C.K. Prahalad: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Boris Groysberg: Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
Howard Gardner: Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
Thomas K. McCraw: Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Peter Cappelli: Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
Peter Sims: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
Guy Kawasaki: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
Matthew E. May: The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change
Paul Ekman: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Third Edition
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
Robert I. Sutton: The No Asshole Rule -- Paperback published 9/1/10
Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Vineet Nayar: Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down
Liz Wiseman: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Tony Hsieh: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Christopher Chabris: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Chip Heath: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Daniel H. Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Rakesh Khurana: Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Morten T. Hansen: Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results
Alan M. Webber: Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self
Matthew E. May: In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
Pamela Slim: Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
Dacher Keltner: Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Laurence J. Peter: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Donovan Campbell: Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Paul Ekman: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, Third Edition
James Dyson: Against the Odds: An Autobiography (Business icons)
Richard A. Moran: Nuts, Bolts, and Jolts: Fundamental Business and Life Lessons You Must Know
Lucian Bebchuk: Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
Thomas M. Tripp: Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge--And How to Stop It
Randy Komisar: The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
J. Richard Hackman: Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances
Scott A. Snook: Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq
Frank Hauser: Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair
Thomas Kelley: The Art of Innovation: Success Through Innovation the IDEO Way
- The Psychology of Gratitude (Series in Affective Science)
Robert Emmons: Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier
Hayagreeva Rao: Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations
Alice Schroeder: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Donald T. Phillips: Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Michael Maccoby: Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds and Who Fails
Warren Bennis: Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader
Michael Maccoby: The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow
Michael A. Hiltzik: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Noah J. Goldstein: Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Peter Bearman: Doormen (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
P. M. Forni: The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
Charles L. Bosk: Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Martin Kihn: House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
Martin Kihn: Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too
Dean Keith Simonton: Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
David McCullough: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Timothy Ferriss: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Bob Sullivan: Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day-and What You Can Do About It
Kerry Patterson: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
C. Fred Alford: Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Chip Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Robert B. Cialdini: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
Michael S. Malone: Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company
Shona L. Brown: Competing on the Edge : Strategy as Structured Chaos
Thomas H. Davenport: Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
John Steinbeck: The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics)
Peter J. Frost: Toxic Emotions at Work and What You Can Do About Them
Louis Uchitelle: The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Phil Rosenzweig: The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
William C. Taylor: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Rakesh Khurana: Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Jeffrey Pfeffer: New Directions for Organization Theory : Problems and Prospects
James L. Adams: Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
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