Pfeffer, Jeffrey.
Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense : profiting from evidence-based management / Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton. - Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press, c2006. - x, 276 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.
Why every company needs evidence-based management -- How to practice evidence-based management -- Is work fundamentally different from the rest of life and should it be? -- Do the best organizations have the best people? -- Do financial incentives drive company performers? -- Strategy is destiny? -- Change or die? -- Are great leaders in control of their companies? -- Profiting from evidence-based management.
Provides management advice to business leaders that is based upon evidence rather than on commonly held beliefs, in core management areas such as leadership, strategy, change, talent, incentives, and the connections between work and life.
Adult Follett Library Resources.
9781591398622 (trade) 1591398622 (trade)
2005030854
Industrial management--Decision making.
Management.
Decision making.
HD30.23 / .P468 2006
658.4/03
Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense : profiting from evidence-based management / Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton. - Boston, MA : Harvard Business School Press, c2006. - x, 276 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.
Why every company needs evidence-based management -- How to practice evidence-based management -- Is work fundamentally different from the rest of life and should it be? -- Do the best organizations have the best people? -- Do financial incentives drive company performers? -- Strategy is destiny? -- Change or die? -- Are great leaders in control of their companies? -- Profiting from evidence-based management.
Provides management advice to business leaders that is based upon evidence rather than on commonly held beliefs, in core management areas such as leadership, strategy, change, talent, incentives, and the connections between work and life.
Adult Follett Library Resources.
9781591398622 (trade) 1591398622 (trade)
2005030854
Industrial management--Decision making.
Management.
Decision making.
HD30.23 / .P468 2006
658.4/03