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Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Friction Project by Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao The essential roadmap for coping with friction at work, by the authors of Scaling Up ExcellenceAll too often, getting important things done at work is hard, soul crushing and convoluted. Too much precious time is spent wading through corporate gunk.Friction eats away at our energy, creativity and productivity and makes business slow and unproductive. And yet so frequently, organisations make the wrong things easier to do, taking down guardrails when they should in fact hit the brakes. Over the past decade, Stanford professors Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao have made it their mission to understand this phenomenon.Now, in this no-nonsense guide, they have assembled the very best of their collective wisdom. They show how to cut down unnecessary bureaucracy, overcome obstacles and banish the unhelpful systems that avert real progress. The Friction Project is essential reading, whether youre the CEO of a multinational, an employee dealing with difficult colleagues, or a freelancer seeking to streamline the way you operate. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Robert I. Sutton (Author)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. Suttons 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.Huggy Rao (Author)Huggy Rao is the Atholl McBean professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, the Sociological Research Association, and the Academy of Management. He has written for Harvard Business Review, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Market Rebels and coauthor of the bestselling Scaling Up Excellence. Review This is a practical manual, an entertaining litany of "bad" friction, from pointless meetings to guff-filled emails, a hymn in praise of "friction-fixers", and a timely pointer to the "good" friction that nudges us away from bad decisions * Financial Times, (Best Books of 2024: Business) *Sutton and Rao take us on a delightful tour of bad emails, infuriating subscriptions and labyrinthine hiring processes - and they show us how to fix it all. Hard to put down and easy to like, this is a business book to savour. * Tim Harford, author of The Data Detective *This is the ultimate guide to diagnosing and fixing the problems in your organization. If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place. * Adam Grant *Sutton and Rao show how leaders who pay attention to friction - which kinds are helpful and which are not - can equip these people with the right tools, build their trust, and make incredible progress as a result. * Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, former President of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity Inc *Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao have spent the last decade studying the causes and remedies for friction troubles at a wide range of companies. Theyve distilled their lessons to help you and your team make the right things easier and the wrong things harder in your company. Every executive, investor, board member, and leader should buy The Friction Project. * Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock Partners *Sutton and Rao have given us a thousand gems, each an invaluable insight on its own ... I guarantee that their profoundly humane arguments will win your hearts, change your behavior, and transform your companies. * Amy C. Edmondson, Professor, Harvard Business School, Author of Right kind of wrong: The science of failing well *The idea of leaders as friction fixers is dynamite ... Suttons and Raos insights in The Friction Project offer leaders at all levels important tools and real-world examples to recognize the role that both kinds of friction can play in their organizations success. * Shantanu Narayan, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe *If you dream of freeing your people and organization to focus their time on what really matters, The Friction Project is the book for you. More than ever today we need more nimble, innovative, customer centric, and human organizations. Eliminating needless friction is at the heart of that quest, as Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao show in their wonderful new book. * Herminia Ibarra, The Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School and author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, and Working Identity *A great and provocative read. As a business leader I never thought of leaders as friction fixers. The Friction Project identifies when friction is and is not desirable. Its packed with real-world examples from varied organizations, their frictions, and above all, how the people who make repairs practice their craft. * Carlos Brito, CEO of Belron and former CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev *As I read this groundbreaking book, I imagined a future where every leader eliminates bad friction and harnesses good friction to build better organizations. Every manager MUST read The Friction Project to learn how, by leading through a friction lens, and using the practical solutions Sutton and Rao provide, they can create productive, innovative, and caring workplaces. * Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School; author of Remote Work Revolution and co-author of The Digital Mindset * Details ISBN0241594855 Author Huggy Rao Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241594858 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-02-15 Imprint Penguin Business Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2024-02-15 Subtitle How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 0241594855 Pages 304 DEWEY 658 NZ Release Date 2024-05-12 AU Release Date 2024-05-12 Alternative 9780241594865 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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