What Were They Thinking?
Unconventional Wisdom About Management
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2007
241 pages
978-1-4221-4809-9 (ISBN)
Description
Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalize on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success.
Based on his popular column in Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers wise and timely business commentary that challenges conventional wisdom while providing data and insights to help companies make smarter decisions. The book contains a series of short chapters filled with examples, data, and insights that challenge questionable assumptions and much conventional management wisdom. Each chapter also provides guidelines about how to think more deeply and intelligently about critical management issues. Covering topics ranging from managing people to leadership to measurement and strategy, it's good organizational advice, delivered by Dr. Pfeffer himself.
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- CHAPTER 1: What Were They Thinking?
- Part I: People-Centered Strategies
- CHAPTER 2: The Face of Your Business
- CHAPTER 3: Making Companies More Like Communities
- CHAPTER 4: A Blueprint for Success
- CHAPTER 5: How Companies Get Smarter
- CHAPTER 6: Why Employees Should Lead Themselves
- Part II: Creating Effective Workplaces
- CHAPTER 7: Stop Picking Employees' Pockets
- CHAPTER 8: Let Workers Work
- CHAPTER 9: Why Spy on Your Employees?
- CHAPTER 10: All Work, No Play?
- CHAPTER 11: Sins of Commission
- CHAPTER 12: More Mr. Nice Guy
- CHAPTER 13: Resumes Don't Tell
- Part III: Power Play
- CHAPTER 14: The Courage to Rise Above
- CHAPTER 15: Executive-in-Chief
- CHAPTER 16: How to Turn On the Charm
- CHAPTER 17: A Field Day for Executives
- CHAPTER 18: The Whole Truth, and Nothing But
- CHAPTER 19: Refuse to Lose
- CHAPTER 20: No More Excuses
- Part IV: Measures of Success
- CHAPTER 21: The Real Budget Crisis
- CHAPTER 22: Shareholder Return Is the Wrong Measure of Performance
- CHAPTER 23: Dare to Be Different
- CHAPTER 24: Curbing the Urge to Merge
- CHAPTER 25: Don't Believe the Hype About Strategy
- Part V: Facing the Nation
- CHAPTER 26: In Praise of Organized Labor
- CHAPTER 27: What to Do-and Not Do-About Executive Pay
- CHAPTER 28: Stopping Corporate Misdeeds
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
