The Friction Project - How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2025 |
Seiten | 304 |
Format | 13,0 x 19,9 x 2,0 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 216 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780241594865 |
Bestell-Nr | 24159486EA |
'If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place.' Adam Grant, author of Think Again
Every organisation is plagued by destructive friction. Lengthy and convoluted emails, inefficient processes, and antiquated procedures can all be obstacles to excellence at work.
Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful. Often teams need to slow down, struggle and develop some bad ideas to find that rare good one. 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 will help you to:
identify where to avert and repair bad organisational friction
acknowledge where to maintain and inject good friction
reframe friction troubles that can't be imm ediately fixed, so they feel less threatening
repair failing organisations
The Friction Project is the ultimate guide to making the right things easier and the wrong things harder.
'Hard to put down and easy to like, this is a business book to savour.' Tim Harford, author of The Data Detective
Rezension:
This is a practical manual, an entertaining litany of "bad" friction, from pointless meetings to guff-filled emails, a hymn in praise of "friction-fixers", and a timely pointer to the "good" friction that nudges us away from bad decisions Financial Times, (Best Books of 2024: Business)