Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management

ISBN: 978-1-59139-862-2
Materia: Gestion de empresas
Autor: Pfeffer, J.
Editorial: Harvard Business School
Edición: 2006
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Páginas: 276
PVP: 31,00 €

Reseña:
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. 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.

Índice:
1 Why every company needs evidence-based management 3
2 How to practice evidence-based management 29
3 Is work fundamentally different from the rest of life and should it be? 57
4 Do the best organizations have the best people? 85
5 Do financial incentives drive company performance? 109
6 Strategy is destiny? 135
7 Change or die? 159
8 Are great leaders in control of their companies? 187
9 Profiting from evidence-based management 217