Surviving Assholes and Building Better Organizations with Bob Sutton 7 | 14

Hello, everybody, welcome to the Radical Canter Podcast. I'm Tim Scott. I'm Amy Sandler and today we are so excited to welcome Stanford Professor Emeritus Bob Sutton to discuss how to lead and build effective organizations that don't sacrifice people for profit. Bob is an organizational psychologist and best selling author of eight books. Is that right, Bob? Eight books? Yes, yes, eight books for sure. Eight books. I'm an old academic, so we have a lot of time to write. These these these books include the no asshole rule, and I think that's one of Kim's favorite uh words and books, and the the friction project.

And Bob studies leadership, innovation, organizational change, and workplace dynamics. We're gonna dig into all of it. His main focus over the past decade is on scaling and leading at scale. So How can you grow organizations? Spread good things, remove bad things in teams and organizations. and enhance performance, innovation, and well being. Welcome to the show, Bob Sutton.

All right, Amy, thanks. That was a fabulous introduction. I I think uh you know me better than I know me. So that's what you said. Well, my goal by the end of the conversation is that we all know Bob Sutton a little bit better. Maybe maybe even Bob Sutton. That everybody loves Bob Senton as much as we love Bob Sentinel. Thrilled to be chatting with you. Oh, it's great to it's great to be talking to you, Kim and Amy. Fabulous. So Bob Why don't we start out talking about

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