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Organizational research is an oxymoron. Having spent 30+myears in the trenches, nonof these books matters. Sorry, Bob.
Commented Dec 1, 2012 on 12 Books Every Leader Should Read:Updated at Bob Sutton
12 Books Every Leader Should Read:Updated
I first posted this in 2011, but I update it now and then. Note I have removed two from the list: Men and Women of the Corporation and Who Says that Elephants Can't Dance? They are both great books, but I am trying to stick to 12 books and the two new ones below edge them out. Here goes: I wa...
You may well have already thought of this. It would seem that evolutionary biology has some useful perspective on scaling up excellence. I might describe the theory of evolution as a cybernetic model for evidence-based change, including the right size for any organic system in a given environment. In the case of really big banks, certain components or subsystems (e.g., the CEO, the board)of the larger organic system that is the bank act counter to the long term welfare of the larger system. Oh, and I would have thought that corporations are biological systems as well.
Commented Sep 2, 2012 on Too Big to Fail, Economies of Scale, Cities, and Companies at Bob Sutton
Too Big to Fail, Economies of Scale, Cities, and Companies
I've been reading research on organizational size and performance as it is pertinent to the book that Huggy Rao and I are writing on scaling-up excellence. In doing so, I also have been following the debate about banks and whether the assertion that both a cause of the meltdown and a risk for f...
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