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Scaling up excellence getting to more without settling for less

"In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--

Main Authors: Sutton, Robert I. (Author), Rao, Hayagreeva, 1959- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Crown Business, 2014.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Seibel, Sophie Stein tribute
Organizational effectiveness.
Organizational change.
Customer relations.
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Summary: "In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies--how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture"--
Physical Description: xviii, 346 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780385347020 (hardback)
0385347022 (hardback)
Author Notes: Robert I. Sutton is professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University, where he is co-founder of the Center for Work Technology and Organizations, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Institute of Design ("the d.school"). Sutton was named as one of 10 "B-School All-Stars" by BusinessWeek , which they described as "professors who are influencing contemporary business thinking far beyond academia." His books include The Knowing-Doing Gap (with Jeffrey Pfeffer), Weird Ideas the Work , and two New York Times bestsellers, The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss .

Huggy Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University, where he studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. His honors include the W. Richard Scott Distinguished Award for Scholarship from the American Sociological Association and Sidney Levy Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management. He is the author of Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation ," Which Intel's Andy Grove praised for providing "shrewd analysis" and an "aha moment."

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