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Scaling Up Excellence

Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao

How can leaders spread the best beliefs and behavior of a few people to the many as an organization grows?

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Author
Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao

Why read it

  • You will understand why pockets of excellence are easy to find but hard to spread across a whole organization
  • You will see why mediocrity and mistakes spread when a growing organization fails to link the right people to the right information
  • You will stop hunting for a quick, easy fix for spreading excellence, since the authors found none in seven years of study

Who it is for

  • A manager whose best team cannot get others to copy it
  • A founder watching culture thin out as headcount grows
  • A school or hospital leader trying to spread a good practice

Contents

  1. Advance Praise for SCALING UP EXCELLENCE
  2. PREFACE
  3. THE PROBLEM OF MORE
  4. I
  5. SETTING THE STAGE
  6. CHAPTER 1
  7. IT’S A GROUND WAR, NOT JUST AN AIR WAR
  8. CHAPTER 2
  9. BUDDHISM VERSUS CATHOLICISM
  10. II
  11. SCALING PRINCIPLES
  12. CHAPTER 3
  13. HOT CAUSES, COOL SOLUTIONS
  14. CHAPTER 4
  15. CUT COGNITIVE LOAD
  16. CHAPTER 5
  17. THE PEOPLE WHO PROPEL SCALING
  18. CHAPTER 6
  19. CONNECT PEOPLE AND CASCADE EXCELLENCE
  20. CHAPTER 7
  21. BAD IS STRONGER THAN GOOD
  22. III
  23. PARTING POINTS
  24. CHAPTER 8
  25. DID THIS, NOT THAT
  26. TEACH US MORE, LEARN MORE
  27. APPENDIX
  28. THE SEVEN-YEAR CONVERSATION: HOW WE DEVELOPED THESE IDEAS

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