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

byRobert I. Sutton

This program features a bonus conversation between the authors. The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says, "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place." 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). A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

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Empowerment, transformation, strategies, gurus. When it comes right down to it, career and growth ebooks can be some of the most productive catalysts for ingenuity and growth when it comes to professional development. From job-hunting and mentoring to negotiation and resumes, our diverse selection here in the career and growth category covers it all. If you're facing a career transition and looking for advice and empowerment from extraordinary people, Everand is where you’ll find indispensable advice from intelligent people with significant insights and experience. Pore over interviews and essays with experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in diverse worlds and benefit from their insights into their own career journeys and personal growth. These books are designed to inspire and help us harness our innate focus and tenacity to drive our own lives and careers. Some favorite must-reads in the career and growth ebook category include Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way, and Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success.

Empowerment, transformation, strategies, gurus. When it comes right down to it, career and growth ebooks can be some of the most productive catalysts for ingenuity and growth when it comes to professional development. From job-hunting and mentoring to negotiation and resumes, our diverse selection here in the career and growth category covers it all. If you're facing a career transition and looking for advice and empowerment from extraordinary people, Everand is where you’ll find indispensable advice from intelligent people with significant insights and experience. Pore over interviews and essays with experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in diverse worlds and benefit from their insights into their own career journeys and personal growth. These books are designed to inspire and help us harness our innate focus and tenacity to drive our own lives and careers. Some favorite must-reads in the career and growth ebook category include Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way, and Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success.