Bob Sutton is singing hymns to a 1984 study of peripatetic Methodist ministers.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and author of The No Asshole Rule says it still shows how good leaders have the most impact on teams and small organisations, not vast companies.
Elsewhere:
- Lucy Kellaway’s managerial twaddle awards for 2008;
- Ways of figuring out if your job is safe (no.8: do you engage in high-maintenance behaviour that means the cost of keeping you employed is not just financial, but emotional too?);
- A top Wall Street lawyer offers his advice to board directors in 2009;
- “An air bag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident” — The New York Times Magazine anatomises Value at Risk’s failings (see also our new MBA Gym module on risk management).

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