Bob Sutton Quotes

• Know when and how to get out of the way.

  Bob Sutton

  Way, Knows

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• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  Bob Sutton

  Vacation, Awards, Engineering

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• As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

  Bob Sutton

  Moving, Order, Boss

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