Bob Sutton - Author of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less and The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, IDEO Fellow, ranked one of the "50 Best B School Professors".

What we discuss in this episode:

• What makes a great professor? What makes a great boss?

• Can leadership be taught? Learned?

• How do you maintain a good corporate culture as a company grows? How does a company grow/scale effectively?

• As a company grows, how does it maintain it's fundamentals, while also allowing individuals to be creative and unique?

Quotes we liked from Bob:

Resources for you:

Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/

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