A chat with Bob Sutton, Professor at Stanford University, about his best-selling book: "The No Asshole Rule"
HBSTech invites you to attend our exclusive Executive Lunch Series, sponsored by SAP Labs. This is an invitation-only event.
We are delighted to present a lunch with Professor Bob Sutton of Stanford University, where he will discuss his new book, the best-selling "The No Asshole Rule". While "The No Asshole Rule" has not yet been released, it is already the #1 pre-order on Amazon.com, and we have arranged for all attendees to receive a complimentary copy of the book, straight from the publisher, weeks before the general public.
Date: February 8th, 11:30 - 1:00 (Lunch included) Program begins at 11:50!
Place: SAP Labs Campus, Palo Alto | 3410 Hillview Avenue, 2nd Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Sponsor: SAP Labs
Speaker: Professor Bob Sutton of Stanford University, author of the best-selling "The No Asshole Rule"
Event Producer: Chris Yeh, Chairman, HBSTech.
"The No Asshole Rule"
This meticulously researched book, which grew from a much buzzed-about article in the Harvard Business Review, puts into plain language an undeniable fact: the modern workplace is beset with assholes. Bob Sutton (Weird Ideas that Work), a professor of management science at Stanford University, argues that assholes—those who deliberately make co-workers feel bad about themselves and who focus their aggression on the less powerful—poison the work environment, decrease productivity, induce qualified employees to quit and therefore are detrimental to businesses, regardless of their individual effectiveness. He also makes the solution plain: they have to go. Direct and punchy, Sutton uses accessible language and a bevy of examples to make his case, providing tests to determine if you are an asshole (and if so, advice for how to self-correct), a how-to guide to surviving environments where assholes freely roam and a carefully calibrated measure, the "Total Cost of Assholes," by which corporations can assess the damage.
If you've been in the high tech industry for any length of time, you know that we have more than our share of assholes. Join us for an intimate discussion with Professor Sutton (free copy of the book included) as he discusses the prevalence of assholes in the high tech industry, including his take on Apple's Steve Jobs (http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/steve_jobs_as_t.html). Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, an active member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder of the new Hasso Planter Institute of Design. Sutton is also an IDEO Fellow. Sutton studies the links between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance, and has published over 100 articles in academic and applied publications.
Sutton is author of Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation (Free Press, 2002) and co-author (with Jeffrey Pfeffer) of both The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action (Harvard Business School Press, 2000 and of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).
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