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Pick up the key ideas in the book with this quick summary. Lets discuss these 4 keys in detail with the author verne harnish. Stanford professor bob sutton shares principles and colorful examples from his most recent book, scaling up excellence, coauthored by huggy rao. Sutton and rao emphasize respect and dignity in dealing with employees who, quite rightfully, might be unsettled or apprehensive about wideranging change. Scaling up excellence shows what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, spread those splendid deeds, and as an organization grows bigger and older rather than slipping toward mediocrity or worse recharge it with better ways of doing the work at hand. Robert suttonand huggy rao talk about scaling up excellence. Scaling up excellence alliance of chief executives. Sometimes we discuss a book in one meeting, and other times we walk through a book chapter by chapter. Bestselling author robert sutton and his stanford gsb colleague huggy rao devoted seven years to studying how the best leaders and teams spread constructive beliefs, behaviors, and practices from those who have. Scaling up excellence notes from chapter 2 part 2 of 3 posted on june 23, 2014 january 25, 2015 by chip houston though there is no magic formula to make the vexing tensions and tradeoffs vanish, the best leaders and teams stay on the lookout for signs of overkill. Scaling up excellence quotes showing 117 of 17 people also have a greater capacity when they arent worn down by work and worry.
According to sutton and rao, this can be difficult to scale up and implement but it is possible. Who should read this book if youre a manager in a midsized to large company, this book should be required reading for you. Whether youre looking to start a business or want to expand an existing one, this book will be your howto guide. Aug 04, 2014 theres a lot more to scaling up excellence than just expanding your business footprint, its a matter of mindset and attitude. I have a weird obsession with clusterfucks, sutton tells quartz at work. Hayagreeva huggy rao is the atholl mcbean professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the graduate school of business, stanford university. Jan 21, 2014 1 spread a mindset, not just a footprint running up the numbers and putting your logo on as many places as possible isnt enough. Every year i assign books to individual team members and also to the team collectively. If you like 1 month unlimited audiobook listening 12.
While there were a few examples borrowed from good boss, bad boss, the latest book, scaling up excellence written with huggy rao, also a stanford professor is completely different. Having won numerous awards, theres a reason scaling up excellence is first in our list. Professor rao teaches courses on scaling up excellence, hr for startups, and launch to liquidity a course he coteaches with professors levav and rauh. What drives them, keeps them up at night, and devours their workdays is the difficulty of spreading excellence to more people and more places. Essence beverly, charmaine, evelyn 3 sisters living in the same maryland town outside washington, d. Scaling up excellence drive the progress principle dan pink. March 17, 2018 in 5,074 words barely uninteresting at. Scaling is one of the toughest challenges that senior leaders face. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Accomplishing both scale and excellence at the same time is extremely challenging. A new business book, scaling up excellence by stanford university professors robert sutton and huggy rao, yields more career planning gems.
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Sutton and rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes. Executives can always point to places where a company is doing a great job. In scaling up excellence, bestselling author bob sutton and stanford colleague huggy rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from. Getting to more without settling for less kindle edition by sutton, robert i. The no asshole rule download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
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