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- What Were They Thinking? by Jeffrey Pfeffer |Book Brief
- The book “What Were They Thinking?” argues that most managers fail because they diligently follow common management practices that are sometimes flawed to the core. Author Jeffrey Pfeffer challenges managers to throw out conventional wisdom and to think harder and more strategically about what’s right for their companies.
- Videos 2007-12-06
- Evidence-Based Management
- The Idea in Brief Managers have tough jobs: Under intense pressure to make decisions with incomplete information, even the best among us make mistakes. The good news? Evidence abounds to help us make the right choices....
- Articles 2007-12-14
- Five Hard Truths About the MBA
- If you’re counting on an MBA to help advance your career, new evidence might make you think twice. Hard...
- Articles 2007-10-16
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- How effective is incentive pay?
- The return on incentive pay depends on what the employer wants to gain by paying for performance, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, author and professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Pfeffer maintains that the current management practice of setting up an incentive compensation program can have unintended, undesirable...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- How effective is incentive pay?(Executive Briefing)(Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management)(In What Were They Thinking? : Unconventional Wisdom About Management)
- The return on incentive pay depends on what the employer wants to gain by paying for performance, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, author and professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Pfeffer maintains that the current management practice of setting up an incentive compensation program...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- Hourly Wage-Earners Less Likely to Volunteer, Says Study From University of Toronto's Rotman School of.
- Byline: Rotman School of Management Management TORONTO, Oct. 16 AScribe Newswire -- If time is money, then people directly paid for their time are less willing to give it up for free, a new study shows. ...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Experts Advise on "Closing the Leadership Gap," in Authoria Webcast Series
- Stanford Professor and Aetna Executive Present Strategies for Addressing the Critical Shortfall of Potential Leaders WALTHAM, Mass. -- Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced a two-part webcast series designed to help employers recognize and address the critical leadership gaps within their organizations. ...
- Articles 2007-09-17
- Business of Software Begins Search for Next Software Idols
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Think you're the next Guy Kawasaki? Can you shout louder and dance better than Steve Ballmer? Do you look cooler in a black turtleneck than Steve Jobs? The Business of Software organization is looking for new Software Idols to speak at its upcoming conference,...
- Articles 2007-07-09
- Investing in people: convincing the CFO.
- Byline: Allan Schweyer Jan 24, 2007 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The data-driven approach to human resources HR management provides companies with competitive advantage. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford University, calls this approach "evidence-based...
- Articles 2007-01-24
- Hard Facts
- It's been a long time since I gave a book report, but I just can't resist telling you about the latest volume I've digested. The book is Hard Facts, and it has a few subtitles: Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management.1 The book is authored by Stanford...
- Articles 2006-11-08
- Benchmarking dangers.
- Byline: WENDY LEAVITT e-mail: wleavitt@fleetowner.com Benchmarking, using other companies' performance to help set standards for your own, is as much a part of business as budgeting and strategic planning, and for obvious reasons. Besides the value of understanding your market, it just...
- Articles 2006-11-01
- Agents, Recruiters Improve Your Likeability - and Bankability, According to Stanford Business School Research.
- Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Sept. 18 AScribe Newswire -- Modesty is still a virtue, even in the competitive world of business. Try talking about your own accomplishments in any setting, even in a job interview, and you're more likely...
- Articles 2006-09-18
- UPFRONT : Finetuning the bullshit detector
- If you have half a memory and think the latest, best, breakthrough bit of management advice has a familiar ring, you're probably right. That's according to Robert Sutton, professor of management science at Stanford Engineering School and author of a bunch of books including Hard Facts, Dangerous...
- Articles 2006-08-01
- Treat Your Organization as a Prototype: The Essence of Evidence-Based Management
- When looking for ways to enhance performance, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton counsel gather the facts, look for patterns, and experiment to make things better. Then keep repeating the process. Amplifying their recommendations with engaging anecdotes, they are skeptical of the "latest" breakthroughs and best practices, urging managers, instead, to...
- Articles 2006-07-01
- The failure of strategy.
- Byline: Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I Sutton Jun 08, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Strategic planning should not overshadow other aspects of the management of companies. A strategy is thought to improve the performance of an...
- Articles 2006-06-08
- Consider the evidence
- Consider the evidence HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF-TRUTHS, AND TOTAL NONSENSE Profiting from Evidence-Based Management By Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton Harvard Business School Press. $27.50. THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF GENERALLY ACCEPTED strategies, ideas, truths and assorted pearls of wisdom in the world of business management. The ones that...
- Articles 2006-05-01
- DaVita Featured by Stanford Business School Professor as Unique Model of Company Management
- EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a nod to adistinctly unique corporate culture that has yielded impressivegrowth and employee retention over the past seven years, ProfessorJeffrey Pfeffer, the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of OrganizationalBehavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business has featuredDaVita, Inc. in a...
- Articles 2006-04-19
- Authors explore evidence-based management.(Business)(Business books)
- Byline: Jim Pawlak "Hard Facts Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense - Profiting From Evidence-Based Management" by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, Harvard Business School Press, $27.50. The workplace version of "Consumer Reports" - it evaluates virtually every aspect managing a business...
- Articles 2006-04-17
- Article in Stanford Social Innovation Review Urges Managers to Act on Facts, Not Faith.
- Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., April 13 AScribe Newswire -- "Despite the wealth of research on what makes organizations and people more effective, there isn't yet an evidence-based movement in management," bemoan two faculty members of the Stanford Graduate ...
- Articles 2006-04-13
- act on FACTS, NOT FAITH
- How management can follow medicine's lead and rely on evidence, not on half-truths The 19th-century French physician Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis put a lot of leeches out of business. For centuries before his research, doctors believed that removing a few pints of a person's blood would help cure all...
- Articles 2006-04-01
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