Robert I. Sutton

Robert I. Sutton (born 1954 in Chicago) is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an institution of Stanford University and one of the leading business schools in the United States. There he works in the areas of management science, engineering and Organizational Behaviour. In addition, he has been active for many companies as a consultant.

Sutton received his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and then worked at Stanford University since 1983. He also taught at the Haas Business School and was repeatedly Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1986-87, 1994-95, and 2002 -03.

Publications

• With Jeffrey Pfeffer, The Knowing - Doing Gap: How Smart Firms Turn Knowledge Into Action (Harvard Business School Press, 2000 ),
• Weird Ideas That Work: 11 ½ Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation ( The Free Press, 2002)
• With Jeffrey Pfeffer, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half- Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence- Based Management (Harvard Business School Press, 2006 ).
• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Is not ( Warner, 2007)
• Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best .. and learn from the worst (2010)

• The Asshole Factor: From skillful handling of braggarts, intriguers and despots in companies, Heyne, ISBN 3453600606
• The nonconformist Factor: With unconventional ideas for success, Piper, ISBN 3492251773