Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management

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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Exellent facts and myths on management
  
  Hard Facts introduces the concept of evidence-based management as an alternative to the fad of the month style of management. The evidence based management movement is influenced by the evidence based management movement. It promoted making decisions based on well-research evidence which means an attitude change towards a constant search for better evidence to make better decisions.
  The book consists of three parts. The first part, setting the stage, is an introduction to the concept of evidence... more info

• Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
  "Why do executives do things without real knowledge or evidence that what they are doing is valid?"
  In today's ultra-fast, ultra-competitive, and ultra-confusing world, executives are constantly seeking anything that will provide a performance or competitive edge. And there are gurus, writers, consultants, and former executives who all have a plan or formula or template for that edge. The need and these so-called solutions come together in a seductive and sometimes lethal package called "best... more info

• Another thought provoking work from Pfeffer
  
  I've been an avid Pfeffer fan since 'Resource Dependency', so am inclined to give him 5 stars for anything he writes.
  The main themes in here are extremely thought provoking and are great for jogging one's brain to think thorough one's management assumptions. A few of his analogies are weak...I believe there are better cases as analogies for some of Pfeffer's points. He relies upon his corporate experience, but most of the half-truths have graphic examples in government bureaucracies. Using those... more info

• Great scientific evaluation of many management beliefs
  This is one of the best books on management, which takes a hard scientific look at deeply ingrained beliefs and provides scientific pointers, in many cases to the gold standard--controlled experiments.
  As with any book, each of us loves evidence that supports our own beliefs, but this book provides strong evidence that made me re-evaluate some other deeply ingrained (and likely wrong) beliefs, and that's the real value of the book.
  Unlike In Search of Excellence, which was highly motivating, but... more info

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