Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in

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) is a professor of

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at the

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and a researcher in the field of

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. He is a ''

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'' best-selling author.Robert I. Sutton
faculty page at Stanford University Sutton received a Ph.D. in

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from the

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in 1984. He has been on the

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faculty since 1983. He has also taught at the

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of the

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, and was a Fellow at the

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at Stanford during the 1986–87, 1994–95, and 2002–03 academic years. He is currently also a Fellow at the design consulting firm

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and has a courtesy appointment as a professor of organizational behavior at

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James Cham, Hayagreeva Rao and Bob Sutton

Books published as author

* ''The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action '', with

Jeffrey Pfeffer Jeffrey Pfeffer (born July 23, 1946, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American business theorist and the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's mo ...

, Harvard Business School Press, 2000 * ''Weird Ideas That Work: 11½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation'', The Free Press, 2002 * ''Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management'', with Jeffrey Pfeffer, Harvard Business School Press, 2006 * '' The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't'', Warner, 2007 * ''Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be The Best...And Learn From The Worst'', Warner, 2010 * ''Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less '', with

Huggy Rao Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao (born 27 April 1959) is an American academic. He is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Early life Rao was born in India. Rao graduate ...

, Crown Business, 2014 * ''The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt'', Penguin, 2017

References

External links

Bob Sutton: Work Matters
personal blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, Robert I. 1954 births Living people Academics and writers on bullying American business theorists Stanford University School of Engineering faculty University of Michigan alumni