Scaling Up Excellence - critical summary review

About the summary

“Scaling Up Excellence” – a bestseller by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao – examines one of the toughest challenges that fast-growing companies deal with: spreading and replicating success on a bigger scale. Through extensive research and case examples on organizations including Facebook, Pixar, JetBlue Airways, and General Electric, the book covers useful practices, strategies, and principles for building a winning culture and eliminating destructive behavior to scaling excellence.

Who wrote the book?

Dr. Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao is a professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, whose research is focused on collective action within organizations and i... (Read more)

Dr. Robert I. Sutton is an organizational psychologist with a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. A Stanford professor of management science and engineering, whose books, articles,... (Read more)

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