Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
A Better Way to Separate Sound Management Ideas from Seductive Hype The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn’t wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make...
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A Better Way to Separate Sound Management Ideas from Seductive Hype The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn t wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held-but ultimately flawed-management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life - and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice. BusinessWeek ...a rarity on the crowded management shelf a useful reminder that the gut is often trumped by the facts.
1Why every company needs evidence-based management32How to practice evidence-based management293Is work fundamentally different from the rest of life and should it be?574Do the best organizations have the best people?855Do financial incentives drive company performance?1096Strategy is destiny?1357Change or die?1598Are great leaders in control of their companies?1879Profiting from evidence-based management217
\ BusinessWeek...a rarity on the crowded management shelf…a useful reminder that the gut is often trumped by the facts.\ \ \ \ \ Chicago TribuneThe workplace version of Consumer Reports, it evaluates virtually every aspect of managing a business against old and new thinking.\ \
