The friction project : how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder /
Sutton, Robert I.
The friction project : how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder / Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao. - India : Penguin business, 2024. - x, 293 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes Index.
I Setting the Stage
II The Elements of Friction Fixing
III The Friction Traps: Intervention Points for Friction Fixers
IV The Wrap-Up
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers.”
Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams.
Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up).
9780241594858
Industrial management --Decision making
Organizational change
658.406 / SUT
The friction project : how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder / Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao. - India : Penguin business, 2024. - x, 293 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes Index.
I Setting the Stage
II The Elements of Friction Fixing
III The Friction Traps: Intervention Points for Friction Fixers
IV The Wrap-Up
Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become “friction fixers.”
Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can’t fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams.
Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up).
9780241594858
Industrial management --Decision making
Organizational change
658.406 / SUT
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