An Archive Blog by Bob Sutton

Sizzle vs. Substance

I’ve been fretting about this lately, and ranting at Jeff Pfeffer and an anonymous business reporter about it. My question is whether there is a

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The Otis Redding Problem

The strong reactions to Marge’s Asshole Management Metric not only got me thinking about the difficulties of managing nasty people (and the times when there

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Brilliant But Cruel

Kent Blumberg (who writes a very thoughtful blog on leadership, strategy and performance) wrote me a couple emails this morning about the Fox TV show

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