Friction-Less: How Leaders Empower Teams with Bob Sutton (Part One)

Dare to Care in The Workplace

Jan 16 2024 • 20 mins

Reduce workplace friction and empower your team. Bob Sutton joins Kathleen to discuss strategies from his new book "The Friction Project" on how smart leaders make desired behaviors easier and negative behaviors harder. Drawing on decades of organizational research, Bob provides a blueprint for creating smoother, more productive work cultures. Tune in to gain insights on fostering psychological safety, nudging better decisions, designing efficient processes, and more from this esteemed Stanford professor and bestselling author of "The No Asshole Rule" and "Good Boss, Bad Boss." You'll come away with tangible takeaways to remove energy-sapping friction and help your people thrive.

About Bob: Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School. He has given keynote speeches to more than 200 groups in 20 countries, and served on numerous scholarly editorial boards. Sutton’s work has been featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Washington Post. He is a frequent guest on various television and radio programs, and has written seven books and two edited volumes, including the bestsellers The No Asshole Rule; Good Boss, Bad Boss; and Scaling Up Excellence.