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The friction project : how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder / Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First EditionDescription: viii, 293 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250284419
  • 1250284414
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Contents:
Part I: Setting the stage. Introduction: Why friction is terrible and wonderful, and how you can fix it -- Our friction project -- Part II: The elements friction fixing. A trustee of others' time -- Friction forensics: The easy way or the hard way? -- How friction fixers do their work: The help pyramid -- Part III: The friction traps: Intervention points for friction fixers. Oblivious leaders: Overcoming power poisoning -- Addition sickness: Putting the subtraction mindset to work -- Broken connections: On preventing coordination snafus -- Jargon monoxide: On the drawbacks and (limited) virtues of hollow and impenetrable babble -- Fast and frenzied: When and how to apply good friction -- Part IV: The wrap-up. Your friction project.
Summary: "Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, 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," so that teams and organizations don't squander the zeal, damage the health, and throttle the creativity and productivity of good people-or burn through cash and other precious resources. Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, which ranges from reframing friction troubles they can't fix right now so they feel less threatening to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams. Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 658.403 S967 Available 33111011111164
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 658.403 S967 Checked out 07/17/2024 33111011236128
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place."

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, 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 kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, from reframing friction troubles they can't fix right now, so they feel less threatening, to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams.

Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.

"Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, 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," so that teams and organizations don't squander the zeal, damage the health, and throttle the creativity and productivity of good people-or burn through cash and other precious resources. Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help readers identify where to avert and repair bad organizational friction and where to maintain and inject good friction. Then their help pyramid shows how friction fixers do their work, which ranges from reframing friction troubles they can't fix right now so they feel less threatening to designing and repairing organizations. The heart of the book digs into the causes and solutions for five of the most common and damaging friction troubles: oblivious leaders, addition sickness, broken connections, jargon monoxide, and fast and frenzied people and teams. Sound familiar? Sutton and Rao are here to help. They wrap things up with lessons for leading your own friction project, including linking little things to big things; the power of civility, caring, and love for propelling designs and repairs; and embracing the mess that is an inevitable part of the process (while still trying to clean it up)"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I: Setting the stage. Introduction: Why friction is terrible and wonderful, and how you can fix it -- Our friction project -- Part II: The elements friction fixing. A trustee of others' time -- Friction forensics: The easy way or the hard way? -- How friction fixers do their work: The help pyramid -- Part III: The friction traps: Intervention points for friction fixers. Oblivious leaders: Overcoming power poisoning -- Addition sickness: Putting the subtraction mindset to work -- Broken connections: On preventing coordination snafus -- Jargon monoxide: On the drawbacks and (limited) virtues of hollow and impenetrable babble -- Fast and frenzied: When and how to apply good friction -- Part IV: The wrap-up. Your friction project.

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