Download or read book The No Asshole Rule written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers: Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good Illuminating case histories from major organizations A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out The No Asshole Rule is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Business Week bestseller.
Download or read book Sutton and the CEO s Baby written by S Cinders and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥A modern-day Cinderella story / Billionaire's Baby Romance♥♥ ★Sutton- How can I become a mother when I have never had a good example of one? Terrified of this new life growing inside of me, and in the middle of planning a wedding, Mark and I are back in Otterville Falls. With new secrets about old friends, and another dead body, Otterville Falls has never been so riled up. I can only hope that we don't scare Mark away before he marries me. ★Mark- Sutton is my world. Something's wrong in this town and it all leads back to the woman I love. Nothing and nobody will stop me from protecting what is mine. Sutton and the CEO's Baby is the second book in the Otterville Falls Series. This story contains a happily for now as well as glimpse of what happens in the next installment.
Download or read book Good Boss Bad Boss written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new chapter that focuses on what great bosses really do. Dr. Sutton reveals new insights that he's learned since the writing of Good Boss, Bad Boss. Sutton adds revelatory thoughts about such legendary bosses as Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, A.G. Lafley, and many more, and how you can implement their techniques. If you are a boss who wants to do great work, what can you do about it? Good Boss, Bad Boss is devoted to answering that question. Stanford Professor Robert Sutton weaves together the best psychological and management research with compelling stories and cases to reveal the mindset and moves of the best (and worst) bosses. This book was inspired by the deluge of emails, research, phone calls, and conversations that Dr. Sutton experienced after publishing his blockbuster bestseller The No Asshole Rule. He realized that most of these stories and studies swirled around a central figure in every workplace: THE BOSS. These heart-breaking, inspiring, and sometimes funny stories taught Sutton that most bosses - and their followers - wanted a lot more than just a jerk-free workplace. They aspired to become (or work for) an all-around great boss, somebody with the skill and grit to inspire superior work, commitment, and dignity among their charges. As Dr. Sutton digs into the nitty-gritty of what the best (and worst) bosses do, a theme runs throughout Good Boss, Bad Boss - which brings together the diverse lessons and is a hallmark of great bosses: They work doggedly to "stay in tune" with how their followers (and superiors, peers, and customers too) react to what they say and do. The best bosses are acutely aware that their success depends on having the self-awareness to control their moods and moves, to accurately interpret their impact on others, and to make adjustments on the fly that continuously spark effort, dignity, and pride among their people.
Download or read book Scaling Up Excellence written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Currency. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal Bestseller "The pick of 2014's management books." –Andrew Hill, Financial Times "One of the top business books of the year." –Harvey Schacter, The Globe and Mail Bestselling author, Robert Sutton and Stanford colleague, Huggy Rao tackle a challenge that determines every organization’s success: how to scale up farther, faster, and more effectively as an organization grows. Sutton and Rao have devoted much of the last decade to uncovering what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, to help spread them, and to keep recharging organizations with ever better work practices. Drawing on inside accounts and case studies and academic research from a wealth of industries-- including start-ups, pharmaceuticals, airlines, retail, financial services, high-tech, education, non-profits, government, and healthcare-- Sutton and Rao identify the key scaling challenges that confront every organization. They tackle the difficult trade-offs that organizations must make between whether to encourage individualized approaches tailored to local needs or to replicate the same practices and customs as an organization or program expands. They reveal how the best leaders and teams develop, spread, and instill the right mindsets in their people-- rather than ruining or watering down the very things that have fueled successful growth in the past. They unpack the principles that help to cascade excellence throughout an organization, as well as show how to eliminate destructive beliefs and behaviors that will hold them back. Scaling Up Excellence is the first major business book devoted to this universal and vexing challenge and it is destined to become the standard bearer in the field.
Download or read book Sutton s CEO Otterville Falls written by S. Cinders and published by S. Cinders Author LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling author S. Cinders is pleased to share a hilarious small town murder mystery romance. A steamy rags-to-riches romance, with one cranky billionaire and a stubborn waitress from Hillbilly Hell. Mama said there isn’t anything in this life that comes free. If someone tries to tell you differently, they’re a dirty salesman, or they want in your pants. When Mr. Fancy-Pants-New-York blew into town. I knew he was far too good to be true. Nobody smelled that nice, looked that handsome, and claimed you were the long-lost daughter of some rich tycoon in the city. A large part of me just wanted to send him over to the local motel where the bedbugs were as big as raisins and the mattresses were as fresh as the dumpster behind Big Eddy’s Crab Shack. But what would that say about my southern hospitality? I’d give him one night. He could crash on my spare bed in the single wide, but come sunup, he needed to be gone. Only sweet chaos found me that night and the next thing I knew, I was on a private jet headed into the city. It was time to pack up the crop tops, and jean cutoffs, and grab by boots We’re taking on Wall Street, and I played my cards right, I might have time to knock some boots with Mr. Fancy-Pants while I’m at it. This is a full-length small town romantic murder mystery with a happily ever after for our rags to riches lovers. Witness one man’s cynical heart be swept away by a sassy southern girl who has no idea just how charming she can be. This is a steamy romance with strong language and adult situations.
Download or read book Sutton s CEO written by S Cinders and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥A modern-day Cinderella story / Billionaire Romance ♥♥ ★Sutton- I know for a fact that nothing in this life comes free. When you live in a rundown trailer on the wrong side of town. You know a thing or two about hunger, fear, and despair. Ever since Mama passed away, I have gotten along just fine. I go to work, keep my head down, and do my best to stay out of trouble. But he always seems to find me... trouble, that is. When Mr. Hot-shot New York turned up telling me that I had inherited a bunch of money, I laughed in his face. I knew down to my toes that something had to be wrong. Nobody, nowhere, no-how had ever gone out of their way to leave me so much as a dime. This was far too 'happily ever after' for my liking. I just wished that he wasn't so insistent... -or clearly the best looking man I'd ever seen. -or smelled so darn good. - or easily my greatest mistake waiting to happen. ★Mark- I was groomed to take over the boss's company. I've worked, no slaved, for years making Sutton Industries the most lucrative, sought after, and most coveted fortune five hundred company in New York. Then out of nowhere, the old man tells me on his death bed--no less, that he has a long lost daughter. Not only was I tasked with finding the girl, I was also expected to hand over half the company. My damn company! Well, I found her. Living in the middle of Hillbilly Hell, working as a waitress, and living in a single wide. The sharks on Wall-street would eat this chick for breakfast. How was I supposed to bring this girl up to task when she didn't even own a pair of shoes that didn't once belong to somebody else? This girl is trouble. Walking away would be the sane thing to do. But there is something vulnerable about her. I can't put my finger on it. Won't put my finger on her, no matter how badly I am itching to touch her. I hated being the nice guy. It wasn't in my DNA. Sutton's CEO is the first book in the Otterville Falls Series. This story contains a happily for now as well as glimpse of what happens in the next installment.
Download or read book Sutton and the CEO Forever written by S Cinders and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥He turned my world upside down. Will I ever learn to breathe again?★SUTTON★It's time I faced up to the truth. When Mark came into my life, he turned my world upside down. I love him so much that it hurts. But can we find a way to exist when we are split between two worlds?As we come to the conclusion of Sutton and Mark's epic love story. We will finally find out who is behind the murders, if Candice and Knox are meant to be together, and we just might have one last surprise that will change everything. Bedding the Billionaire Series consists of stories that can be read alone, but they also contain cross-over characters. BEDDING THE BILLIONAIRE SERIES INFORMATION★ Special Delivery★Special Recover★Sutton and the CEO★Sutton and the CEO's Baby★Sutton and the CEO Forever - PRE-ORDER NOW★Scandalous Sadie - COMING SOON
Download or read book The Six Month Fix written by Gary Sutton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you're the CEO of a struggling business, let's hope we never meet. I'm Gary Sutton, a turnaround guy. When I arrive you leave. Results usually get better and fast."-from the Introduction to The Six-Month Fix Lessons on how to save a sick company from a top turnaround CEO One of the business world's most sought-after "trauma specialists," Gary Sutton has salvaged nearly a dozen failing businesses, including everything from printing, garbage hauling, and burglar alarm companies to aerospace, satellite communications, and software firms. In The Six-Month Fix, Sutton takes readers behind the PR curtain to give them an intimate look at the situations he faced coming into several sick companies and how he fixed what ailed them. Writing in his trademark frank, funny, no-holds-barred style, he shares his war stories and the lessons he learned about what it takes to save a faltering business. Not for the faint of heart, The Six-Month Fix offers honest, straight-from-the-hip advice for managers in training for the business fight of their lives. Gary Sutton (La Jolla, CA) sits on several private boards, is a Director of WebSense (WSBN-Nasdaq), and is the author of several books.
Download or read book Reinforcement Learning second edition written by Richard S. Sutton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the field's key ideas and algorithms. This second edition has been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and updating coverage of other topics. Like the first edition, this second edition focuses on core online learning algorithms, with the more mathematical material set off in shaded boxes. Part I covers as much of reinforcement learning as possible without going beyond the tabular case for which exact solutions can be found. Many algorithms presented in this part are new to the second edition, including UCB, Expected Sarsa, and Double Learning. Part II extends these ideas to function approximation, with new sections on such topics as artificial neural networks and the Fourier basis, and offers expanded treatment of off-policy learning and policy-gradient methods. Part III has new chapters on reinforcement learning's relationships to psychology and neuroscience, as well as an updated case-studies chapter including AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero, Atari game playing, and IBM Watson's wagering strategy. The final chapter discusses the future societal impacts of reinforcement learning.
Download or read book Sutton s CEO written by S Cinders and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥A small town murder mystery romance. Based on a modern-day Cinderella story / Billionaire Romance ♥♥ ★Sutton- I know for a fact that nothing in this life comes free. When you live in a rundown trailer on the wrong side of town. You know a thing or two about hunger, fear, and despair. Ever since Mama passed away, I have gotten along just fine. I go to work, keep my head down, and do my best to stay out of trouble. But he always seems to find me... trouble, that is. When Mr. Hot-shot New York turned up telling me that I had inherited a bunch of money, I laughed in his face. I knew down to my toes that something had to be wrong. Nobody, nowhere, no-how had ever gone out of their way to leave me so much as a dime. This was far too 'happily ever after' for my liking. I just wished that he wasn't so insistent... -or clearly the best looking man I'd ever seen. -or smelled so darn good. - or easily my greatest mistake waiting to happen. ★Mark- I was groomed to take over the boss's company. I've worked, no slaved, for years making Sutton Industries the most lucrative, sought after, and most coveted fortune five hundred company in New York. Then out of nowhere, the old man tells me on his death bed--no less, that he has a long lost daughter. Not only was I tasked with finding the girl, I was also expected to hand over half the company. My damn company! Well, I found her. Living in the middle of Hillbilly Hell, working as a waitress, and living in a single wide. The sharks on Wall-street would eat this chick for breakfast. How was I supposed to bring this girl up to task when she didn't even own a pair of shoes that didn't once belong to somebody else? This girl is trouble. Walking away would be the sane thing to do. But there is something vulnerable about her. I can't put my finger on it. Won't put my finger on her, no matter how badly I am itching to touch her. I hated being the nice guy. It wasn't in my DNA. Bedding the Billionaire Series consists of stories that can be read alone, but they also contain cross-over characters. BEDDING THE BILLIONAIRE SERIES INFORMATION★ Special Delivery★Special Recover★Sutton and the CEO★Sutton and the CEO's Baby★Sutton and the CEO Forever - PRE-ORDER NOW★Scandalous Sadie - COMING SOON
Download or read book Hard Facts Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.
Download or read book The Green Museum written by Sarah S. Brophy and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions. This new edition features updated standards, techniques, and new case studies to help achieve these goals.
Download or read book Enterprise Marketing Management written by Dave Sutton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking paradigm that takes a scientific approach to marketing practice Top executives at the renowned Zyman Marketing Group introduce a revolutionary new method for marketing managers—Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM). EMM systematically links marketing to all the essential functions within an organization, realigning the enterprise to put marketing efforts and customer service at its core. With an introduction by marketing guru Sergio Zyman, Enterprise Marketing Management covers topics such as brand architecture, investment measurement, and how to engineer creativity. EMM, adopted by many Z-Marketing clients, is a proven strategy for transforming organizations and achieving bottom-line results. Dave Sutton (Atlanta, GA) is President/CEO of Zyman Marketing Group. He has more than eighteen years of experience in management and technology consulting. He is a frequent speaker on brand strategy, marketing strategy, and e-business strategy, and serves as President of the Strategic Leadership Forum. He is regularly quoted in Fortune, Forbes, eCompany Now, Upside, and the Chicago Tribune. Tom Klein (Atlanta, GA) is Vice President of Zyman Marketing Group. He has fifteen years of experience in strategy, information technology, and brand marketing.
Download or read book Weird Ideas That Work written by Robert I. Sutton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutton is a sought-after consultant, speaker and Stanford professor. This book brings together 11 of his proven, counter intuitive ideas that work, from hiring people that make employers squirm to encouraging projects likely to fail.
Download or read book Something About Lorelei written by Sandi Lynn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sutton, CEO of Sutton Fashion Magazine I had the world at my fingertips. A successful career, loads of money, and beautiful women were always at my beckoning call. My problem? I lived under the shadow of my mother, who started the family business over thirty years ago. Not to mention her being married and divorced six times left a bad taste in my mouth regarding relationships. Then I met Lorelei Flynn. She showed up at my office as my new personal assistant after spilling coffee all over my new designer suit in Starbucks. She was beautiful, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't keep my hands to myself. We grew close until I found out her secret, which changed everything. Lorelei Flynn, Mr. Sutton's Personal Assistant I was Jack Sutton's fifteenth personal assistant in over a year. Seven years ago, my boyfriend and the love of my life gave me a gift before he was tragically killed in a car accident: my daughter, Hope. Since that day, I haven't dated or had sex with anyone. Then Jack Sutton came into my life. He was sexy as sin but a womanizer and my boss. We both crossed the line. We broke the rules, and I fell in love. Now my entire world was spinning out of control because there were two things Jack Sutton didn't like: relationships and children. 18+
Download or read book Heritage written by Sean Brock and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best seller Winner, James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book of the Year in American Cooking Winner, IACP Julia Child First Book Award Sean Brock is the chef behind the game-changing restaurants Husk and McCrady’s, and his first book offers all of his inspired recipes. With a drive to preserve the heritage foods of the South, Brock cooks dishes that are ingredient-driven and reinterpret the flavors of his youth in Appalachia and his adopted hometown of Charleston. The recipes include all the comfort food (think food to eat at home) and high-end restaurant food (fancier dishes when there’s more time to cook) for which he has become so well-known. Brock’s interpretation of Southern favorites like Pickled Shrimp, Hoppin’ John, and Chocolate Alabama Stack Cake sit alongside recipes for Crispy Pig Ear Lettuce Wraps, Slow-Cooked Pork Shoulder with Tomato Gravy, and Baked Sea Island Red Peas. This is a very personal book, with headnotes that explain Brock’s background and give context to his food and essays in which he shares his admiration for the purveyors and ingredients he cherishes.
Download or read book Stressproof written by Richard Sutton and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world faces a ‘giant storm’ of stress and burnout that is exacerbated in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Learning how to navigate the world going forward is something that everyone has to do. How can leaders help themselves, their employees and their businesses to thrive in the face of these and other challenges? Stressproof speaks to the crisis currently facing the professional landscape. It outlines the conundrum of stress and its performance advantage versus its destructiveness; and it focuses on the stress-related challenges facing decision makers in the world of business today. Practical, insightful and based on case studies and real-world examples, Stressproof provides a game-changing action plan to help managers, leaders and those who are making decisions.