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Tips for eliminating those annoying obstacles that get in the way of your best work

Is some of your work well-intended but adding little value? Heres some expert advice on how to benefit by focusing on "good friction."

Are you making the right things effortless and the wrong things hard? To remove friction in your organization, you may want to start thinking like a friction fixer.

Over the long weekend, I read The Friction Project, a new book out from two of my favorite business school professors, Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao of…

Spring is not only a time for cleaning our homes, but also for decluttering organizations. Managerial clutter, bureaucratic tasks, and excessive meetings waste time and lower morale. Implementing a regular employee-driven spring cleaning process can empower employees and ensure that unnecessary processes are eliminated.

Employees said that they spent an average of 27% of their time on bureaucratic chores such as writing reports or documenting compliance. Every year most companies hold annual performance reviews in which managers assess their charges and the charges respond. Employees also need the opportunity to suggest ways in which the company is making poor use of their time

Coauthor Robert Sutton says companies suffer from too much collaboration or too little. He covers these workplace issues in "The Friction Project."

"The Friction Project" coauthor Robert Sutton. Robert Sutton Two Stanford professors lay out common workplace challenges in their new book titled "The…

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Every company wants to do things as quickly as possible. But there are times when you ought to hit the brakes.