Smart Leaders Understand Friction [Entire Talk] [Explicit]
Culture
From startups to huge, complex organizations, leaders must learn to manage friction.
Duration
47:41
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Season
Season 22
Episode
2
Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist and professor emeritus of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford School of Engineering. Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, the Sociological Research Association, and the Academy of Management. In this conversation with Stanford lecturers Ravi Belani and Emily Ma, Sutton and Rao discuss their new book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder,” and offer advice and insights from their years of research and observation.
Video clips from: Smart Leaders Understand Friction [Entire Talk] [Explicit]
- 5:12Friction becomes a problem as organizations grow. Founders need to pay attention from the start.
- 47:41From startups to huge, complex organizations, leaders must learn to manage friction.
- 2:30When looking for investors, think carefully about who you do and don’t want money from.
- 4:19Large, complex organizations work well when everyone understands the rules, no matter what the game is.
- 6:45Emphasizing speed might help a startup grow, but it can cause problems along the way.
- 3:08Good organizational friction can keep problems from happening.