Robert Sutton
Stanford University
Sutton is famous for questioning original ideas—"To borrow something a colleague said," he explains, "the notion of uniqueness is a sign of arrogance or ignorance, or both"—but there's no denying his one-of-a-kind impact. His management guidebook The No-Asshole Rule has sold more than 150,000 copies worldwide, and he co-founded Stanford's Institute of Design (the "d.school"), a multidisciplinary program that promotes innovative thinking.
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