Publisher: Harvard Business School, 2007, 241 pages
ISBN: 1-4221-0312-9
Keywords: Management
Why do so many companies make so many missteps — even while led by hard working, smart, and serious people who expend major time and effort trying to do the right thing? In What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management, Jeffrey Pfeffer provides incisive and engaging responses to this question based on his popular Business 2.0 column, "The Human Factor."
Pfeffer shows how poor business choices arise when business leaders:
What Were They Thinking? contains twenty-eight short chapters filled with examples, data and insights that challenge conventional beliefs and much accepted management wisdom. Each chapter also provides guidelines about how to think more deeply and intelligently about a wide range of critical topics — from people management and leadership to performance measurement and competitive strategy.
Abounding with solid organizational advice — delivered by Pfeffer himself — this book provides the wise and timely business commentary you need to make the smartest possible decisions for your company.
Pfeffer is normally one of my preferred authors, but this is just prolonged columns of his. Interesting as they may be, they don't warrant a whole book, and the only commonality among the chapters are that most managers are morons, but that isn't new either.
You may read it, or not. Either way, you wont miss much.
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