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In thinking about the process of writing “Good Boss, Bad Boss”, and more broadly, about the set of books that I believe every boss should read, I came up with a list of my favorites.

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD1 minute read

Good Boss, Bad Boss is officially appearing on September 7th, but it is already beginning to appear in stores and I notice that Amazon is already selling it and will start mailing out copies next week. In thinking about the process of writing the book, and more broadly, about the set of books that I believe every boss should read, I came up with a list of my favorites. I tried to limit it to a dozen, but couldn’t bring myself to delete any of these, so here is my list of 16:

Joker One Joker One, Donovan Campbell

Orbiting the Giant Hairball, by Gordon MacKenzie

Narcissistic Leaders, by Michael Maccoby

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Up the Organization, by Robert Townsend

Rivethead, by Ben Hamper

Personal History, Katherine Graham,


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford and a Professor of Organizational Behavior, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Sutton studies innovation, leaders and bosses, evidence-based management, the links between knowledge and organizational action, and workplace civility More


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