Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less

In Scaling Up Excellence, bestselling author Bob Sutton and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao tackle the topic that obsesses businesses large and small, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies-how to scale up their businesses and spread excellence throughout the organizational culture.

Based on five years of research in studying the companies across industries-from Silicon Valley tech companies to the airline industry, from pharmaceuticals to retail-Stanford professor and bestselling author Bob Sutton (The No Asshole Rule) and Stanford colleague Huggy Rao show how companies can overcome the "scaling problem" that every leader, manager, entrepreneur, small-business owner, knowledge worker, and consultant obsess over. The book outlines the principles and lessons learned in creating the right mind-set, replicating excellence throughout an organization's culture, and constantly working to not just do things faster and with a bigger footprint but to do it better. For managers and companies that are trying to scale up bright spots in a big company, or scale up a high-tech start-up into a potential PayPal or Facebook, Scaling Up Excellence shares the principles that work, the pitfalls the authors have discovered, and shows what people can do to increase the odds of success. This is the book that will become the bible for managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs on how to successfully scale up a business.

ROBERT I. SUTTON is an organizational pyschologist at Stanford University and the author of the bestselling The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss, among other books. HAYAGREEVA RAO is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Morgan Stanley Director of the Center of Leadership Development and Research at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. They are co-teaching a class on scaling up to Stanford MBA students.