Robert Sutton. Robert I. Sutton is Professor of Management science at the Stanford Engineering School and researcher in the field of Evidence-based management. He is an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business. The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
Dear bosses, that you may well be victim to a game of mutual deception, where you are deluding yourself into believing that you are great at your job, but if you really knew how it felt to work for you, you would be shocked to discover that you are seen as an asshole, incompetent, or both.
The very act of wielding power can make you blind to how your subordinates are really responding to you.
People quit bosses, not organizations for the most part.
If you are a boss and believe that your people love you and will never leave you, well, it just might be a good time to look in the mirror.