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The Friction Project How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Robert I. Sutton

The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.

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Hidden Brain

The book explains how every organization, from convenience stores to international aid agencies, can be plagued by destructive friction. It gives examples of friction, but also how leaders can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.

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Along with Huggy Rau, Bob is co-author of The Friction Project, how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.

— Episode: Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bump...

Episode: Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

The book explains how every organization, from convenience stores to international aid agencies, can be plagued by destructive friction. It gives examples of friction, but also how leaders can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.

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Along with Huggy Rau, Bob is co-author of The Friction Project, how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder.

Bob and Huggy argue that every organization, from corner convenience stores to international aid agencies, can be plagued by destructive friction.

Bob Sutton is an organizational psychologist at Stanford University. He studies friction, the resistance that we encounter in our daily lives and the organizational hoops we must jump through when we pay a utility bill or get a driver's license.

Bob Sutton is a psychologist at the Stanford School of Engineering. With Huggy Rau, he is co-author of The Friction Project, How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

It explores how operational obstacles show up in the workplace and, more importantly, what we can do about them. The book focuses on how leaders can use "friction fixing" to make the right things easy and the wrong things harder to do.

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The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

— Episode: 131. Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacl...

Episode: 131. Friction Fixing: How to Use Obstacles to Your...

It explores how operational obstacles show up in the workplace and, more importantly, what we can do about them. The book focuses on how leaders can use "friction fixing" to make the right things easy and the wrong things harder to do.

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The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

We've been talking about friction and your new book with Bob Sutton is The Friction Project.

Part of your introduction title is Why is Friction Terrible and Wonderful?

Can you help us understand the wonderful part? I can get the terrible part.

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