Good Boss, Bad Boss Speeches in September

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Good Boss, Bad Boss Speeches in September

As Good Boss, Bad Boss is officially published this month -- in fact, today is the official publication day -- I am doing quite a few speeches on the book. Most are "closed," but three are open to the public, as indicated below. I hope to see you at one of these events:

September 8th: Disney Studios (Burbank, CA)

September 8th: IDEO (Palo Alto, CA)

September 9th: Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

September 10th: Google (Mountain View, CA)

September 16th: Center for Corporate Innovation (Boston, MA)

September 17th: Leading Strategic Execution (Stanford Executive Program, requires enrollment)

September 20th: Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (Open to the public, admission is $20 and 7$ for students, sign up online)

September 23: Learning Essence (Mexico City, Mexico).

September 29th: Amazon (Seattle, WA).

September 30th: Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley, noon to 1pm (Santa Clara, CA. Open to the public, admission is $20; sign-up online)

September 30th, Xerox PARC Forum (Palo Alto, CA, 6:00 PM. Free and open to the public)

P.S. Those beautiful angel and devil chairs at the top of the post above are by Susan Kare , who did them (and the rest of the design) for my Good Boss, Bad Boss PowerPoint deck, and who also consulted on the cover design for the book. Susan has done many fantastic designs and is most famous for designing many of the icons on the original Macintosh, including the trash can and that frowning smiling face that Macs made when they booted.

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I just bought this book and this is a really good book although I just read the first chapter. I hope I can get what I want to learn from this book.
Thanks Bob Sutton.

Posted by: Patrick | September 07, 2010 at 10:01 PM

This is a MOST ambitious schedule, and I am delighted for you that you will be able to share ideas from the book (and, per the last chapter, also glean new stories and insights from the folks you meet).

HOWEVER, particularly as someone who benefited so much from a stop in Cleveland earlier this year, you really should try to give those in the Midwest a chance to hear you live as well!

Posted by: Chris | September 07, 2010 at 09:08 AM

happy pub day! that is quite a schedule!

Posted by: christy | September 07, 2010 at 08:54 AM

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