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Jan 12, 2025 | bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Robin Reames |Robert Sutton |Huggy Rao |Michiko Kakutani

Every year, the Next Big Idea Club editorial staff reviews hundreds of upcoming books to identify the best nonfiction titles. If you’re ready to boost your happiness, productivity, and general well-being in 2025, start by checking out the 25 groundbreaking books below. Stay on top of the best new non-fiction and support our work by becoming a free or paid subscriber to Book of the Day from The Next Big Idea Club.

Jun 18, 2024 | nais.org | Debra Wilson |Robert Sutton |Huggy Rao

Looking for just the right book for your summer reading list? NAIS President Debra Wilson shared these recommendations in her most recent edition of Head Space. Most of the titles are directly applicable to the work of educators and leaders, but some might enrich your life in different ways. Growing as People, Leaders, Teams, and School Communities Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant Grant’s books always offer a healthy helping of insight.

May 26, 2024 | nextbigideaclub.com | Robert Sutton |Huggy Rao |Maggie Jackson |Salman Khan

Breaking news from the Next Big Idea Club: Curators Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink have reviewed their list of seven season finalists and hand-picked their favorite nonfiction books of the season. Without further ado, the two can’t-miss reads of Season 23 are…By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy RaoThe definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations.

Apr 19, 2024 | bbrief.co.za | Robert I. Sutton |Huggy Rao

How smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harderBy Robert Sutton & Huggy RaoAll too often, getting important things done at work is hard, soul crushing and convoluted. Too much precious time is spent wading through corporate gunk. Friction eats away at our energy, creativity and productivity and makes business slow and unproductive. And yet so frequently, organisations make the wrong things easier to do, taking down guardrails when they should in fact hit the brakes.

Mar 8, 2024 | devicedaily.com | Robert Sutton |Huggy Rao

Why great leaders should sometimes make things harder for their teams, according to 2 Stanford professors  By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao January 30, 2024 Our seven-year project taught us that a bedrock belief of friction fixers is that if we focus on what to make easier and faster and what to make harder and slower, life will be better for workers and the people they serve.