Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao developed this site to help people build teams and organizations embrace and live “the subtraction mindset” —to find and and remove things that were  once useful, but are now now in the way, that adds needless friction,  and scatters people attention. It contains a collection of useful subtraction tools that leaders and teams can consider and try to figure out what works best from them, and other useful resources such as books and articles on subtraction. This website is part of Sutton and Rao’s friction project, their quest to understand what organizations ought to make harder, what they ought to make easier, and how to make that happen without driving people crazy.  This project follows from their book Scaling Up Excellence and is the basis of the book they are writing now, tentatively titled The Friction Fix.