Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense

Profiting from Evidence-based Management

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton

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Hardcover | 1 March 2006

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The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health.

Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere.

This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

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Named one of the "Highlights from the Decade" in strategy+business magazine.

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Preface	p. ix
Setting the Stage
Why Every Company Needs Evidence-Based Management	p. 3
How to Practice Evidence-Based Management	p. 29
Dangerous Half-Truths About Managing People and Organizations
Is Work Fundamentally Different from the Rest of Life and Should It Be?	p. 57
Do the Best Organizations Have the Best People?	p. 85
Do Financial Incentives Drive Company Performance?	p. 109
Strategy Is Destiny?	p. 135
Change or Die?	p. 159
Are Great Leaders in Control of Their Companies?	p. 187
From Evidence to Action
Profiting from Evidence-Based Management	p. 217
Notes	p. 239
Acknowledgments	p. 261
Index	p. 265
About the Authors	p. 277
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