Management

Bob Sutton

Good Boss, Bad Boss

Members only. Recorded July 19, 2011

 

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Who is this workout for?

Project Managers, HR Professionals, Division Leaders, Department Managers, Team Leaders, Team Members, Executives, L&D Professionals.

Element: Management

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What you learn.

• Learn the habits of good bosses and shun the sins of bad bosses.

• Adopt the one, key mindset needed to be a great boss.

• How to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive with your team.

• Build a more idea-generating, focused team.

Why this event?

Unaware if you're a terrible boss or a great one? Good Boss, Bad Boss with bestselling author Bob Sutton of Stanford University is here to help. The cost of callous and cruel superiors is considerable: employees with an abusive boss are more likely to work slowly, make deliberate errors, and even suffer heart attacks.

With examples from such diverse workplaces as Pixar and Anchor Steam brewery, Sutton reveals how the best bosses take diverse and intertwined steps to create effective and humane workplaces, and offers tips on taking control, getting and giving credit appropriately, taking responsibility, staying in tune with employees, and squelching your potential inner jerk.

Why it makes a difference.

Using real-life examples and insight gleaned from 30 years of experience as a manager, Sutton will teach you how to become the boss employees enthusiastically want to work for. This entertaining, ultimately practical e-workshop is a wakeup call for every boss to be the best boss possible, and a survival guide for those who work for the worst.

Bob Sutton

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, an active researcher and cofounder in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder and active member of the new “d.school,” a multi-disciplinary program that teaches and spreads design thinking. He is also an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He has published 8 books and edited volumes. He co-wrote The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action, which was selected as Best Management Book of 2000 by Management General. His book Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation, was selected by the Harvard Business Review as one of the 10 best business books of the year. Sutton is also the New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, and Good Boss, Bad Boss.

Sutton’s research and opinions are often described in the press, including the New York Times, The Times (of London) , BusinessWeek, Financial Times, Fortune, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Business 2.0, Wired, Strategy & Leadership, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Jose Mercury. He has also been columnist for CIO Insight and a guest on numerous radio and television shows, including Bloomberg, BBC, PBS, NPR, Tech Nation, and CNN. Bob is delivering the management session, Good Boss, Bad Boss, for G5 Leadership this year.