Robert L. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sutton studies innovation, leaders and bosses, evidence-based management, the links between knowledge and organizational action, and workplace civility. Sutton’s books include Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge into Action (with Jeffrey Pfeffer), and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management (also with Jeffrey Pfeffer). His most recent book is the New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.
Books in order of publication:
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action – 1993
Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company – 2001
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management – 2006
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t – 2007
Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…And Learn from the Worst – 2010
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less – 2014
The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt – 2017
The Friction Project – 2024
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