Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense : profiting from evidence-based management /
"Through evidence-based management, business leaders face the hard facts and act on the best evidence--trumping the competition. They also view common beliefs about effective management with healthy skepticism. To demonstrate the dangers lurking in such beliefs, the authors dismantle six widely...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Mass. :
Harvard Business School Press,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Klappentext |
| Summary: | "Through evidence-based management, business leaders face the hard facts and act on the best evidence--trumping the competition. They also view common beliefs about effective management with healthy skepticism. To demonstrate the dangers lurking in such beliefs, the authors dismantle six widely held - but ultimately flawed - half-truths in core management areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, incentives, and the connections between work and the rest of life. Pfeffer and Sutton describe how to identify and apply practices that are best for their companies, rather than blindly embrace what seems to have worked elsewhere"--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1591398622 9781591398622 |