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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
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- What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management
- What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2007, 241 pp., $25 hardcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Based on the "What Works" columns that author Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote for Business 2.0 magazine, What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Manage. merit...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management.(bookshelf)(Brief article)(Book review)
- What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management. By Jeffrey Pfeffer. Harvard Business School Press, 241 pages. $25. There's a beguiling central theme to this book: conventional management wisdom is frequently all wet. Author Pfeffer, a longtime professor at Stanford Business School and author...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- AMD Stock Spin-off Insider Trading: What Were They Thinking?
- John Clark submits: News of insider information on the AMD stock spin-off of its foundries unit sent me directly to the charts to see what had occurred. It seemed odd that “smart money” was buying into a spin-off, so I wanted to try to figure out what they...
- External links 2009-10-21
- What were they thinking? (Editorials).
- No page has spoken out more often or more passionately for full First Amendment rights for broadcasters, even when broadcasters themselves have been willing to chip away at their own freedom in exchange for political advantage. We still believe broadcasters should be free to be irresponsible...
- Research articles 2003-04-14
- eBay's Skype Fiasco: What Were They Thinking?
- Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: It is astounding that eBay forked EBAY over $3B for Skype and didn’t actually buy Skype’s underlying technology. It is amazing that they didn’t realize this and outright criminal that they didn’t get a fully-paid, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive (exclusive for the purposes of international...
- External links 2009-08-03
- We've got to ask: What were they thinking?
- Hindsight may be easy, but that doesn't make it wrong. Mistakes, of course, happen in every TV season, but seldom have TV's mistakes seemed as plentiful or as obvious in retrospect. m To be fair, bad ideas don't necessarily make bad TV. The Reagans was the best made-for-broadcast movie of...
- Research articles 2003-12-16
- What were they thinking? (News And Notes).(Brief Article)
- 1500 [pound sterling] buys a single CD-ROM containing the forty volumes of The Calendar of State Papers: Colonial: North America and the West Indies, 1574-1739. Rest assured that the searching and index are peerless, and some new material has been added (though not enough for them...
- Research articles 2001-09-22
- What were they thinking?(House Doctor)
- This unique means of venting a furnace in Chicago, Illinois, caught the eye of one of our Weatherization crews. Submitted by, Parliament Builders, Incorporated Weatherization Contractor Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. A Porsche Popsicle When Minnesotans talk...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?
- What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?RE: What's the Most Unethical Thing You've Ever Done in Business?Why not offer large sums of money for the nastiest story then you could contribute directly to your own subject? By its wording and positioning your request is an invitation to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- What is Hollywood thinking?
- The movie may be making some money at the box office, but what in the world were Disney execs thinking when they gave the green light to "The Jungle Book 2"? The bland, boring musical-adventure has to be one of the least- needed sequels ever. There was no...
- Research articles 2003-03-02
- Rules for Marketing
- I’ve been a little hard on Marketing lately, so I thought it would be a good time to be helpful and provide some Really Useful Rules for Marketing to Follow. To keep it real, I’ll present a brief case study based upon my decades of experience in high tech,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Inside mind of Raiders
- TIME TO PLAY "What Were They Thinking?" This installment: "Raiders ink Kwame Harris and Javon Walker." Harris: On the 49ers, he was frequently rendered a spectator on the field by rush ends on passing downs. Paying $16 million over three years? "What were they thinking?" ...
- Research articles 2008-03-09
- How to Avoid the Bernie Madoffs in Your Life
- I saw Bernie Madoff in a bookstore this weekend. Okay, I didn't see the real Madoff, but what I saw on book cover after book cover, filling aisle after aisle, reminded me of him. Madoff is a scumbag, but I've recently heard the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Zell Unloads on Newspaper Employees, Might Unload Newsday
- Watching the newspaper business self-destruct these past few years has been painful, like witnessing a horrible, slow-motion train crash. As one who's always liked newspapers -- and subscribed to lots of them -- I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. Even now, I can't help but notice...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Zell Unloads on Newspaper Employees, Could Unload Newsday
- Watching the newspaper business self-destruct these past few years has been painful, like witnessing a horrible, slow-motion train crash. As one who's always liked newspapers -- and subscribed to lots of them -- I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. Even now, I can't help but notice...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Fixing the Language of ââ¬ÅPass the Buckââ¬Â
- Passive voice and sentence structure that diffuses responsibility just infuriate me. I'm sure we've all sat at an airport, waiting for a delayed flight, and heard a customer service representative announce that the airline apologizes for the delay but "the incoming equipment has arrived late." As though the airplane itself...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Hot Corner: Dain Bramage
- Williams, Danial C., Jr. Michigan Chronicle 03-19-2002 How dumb is the N.F.L. collective bargaining agreement? It's as funny as any sit-com I've seen. In numerous salary cap moves, players have agreed to "restructure" their contracts in order to keep a chance at...
- Research articles 2002-03-19
- 'Advergaming' Is Amped-Up Online Marketing in Boulder, Colo.
- By Erika Stutzman, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 14--The much-maligned banner ad is like a poster child for failed Internet ventures: It's expensive, irritating and it doesn't work. For years, marketing firms swore to their clients that their dollars...
- Research articles 2002-06-14
- Fewer Choices, Less Transparency for a Better Workplace
- Jeff Pfeffer's new book, What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management, lives up to its subtitle. Fellow Stanford professor Robert Sutton raves about the book in his recent blog post he admits that his opinion is slightly biased and highlights a few interesting points. Sutton says: Jeff shows...
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
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