Jeffrey Pfeffer is a leading voice in organizational behavior and effective management. His work delves into the critical aspects of power, leadership, and building successful organizations. Pfeffer explores how companies can achieve extraordinary results through smart people management and debunks common misconceptions in business practices. His writing offers insightful perspectives on what truly works in the dynamic world of commerce.
Drawing on case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between power and accounting and control systems. The authors show how power dynamics influence the design and implementation of these systems, and offer practical recommendations for organizations seeking to promote transparency and accountability.
If you want to 'change lives, change organizations, change the world,' the Stanford business school's motto, you need power.
In this urgent and essential book, Pfeffer lays bare the hidden costs of the gig economy, employment instability, and many modern management practices. If you've got a job, you must read this book. Laszlo Bock, CEO and Co-Founder of Humu & author of Work Rules!
Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Best business book of the week from Inc.com The author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better. The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and talks focused on improving leaders. But what we see worldwide is employee disengagement, high levels of leader turnover and career derailment, and failed leadership development efforts. In Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer shines a bright light on the leadership industry, showing why it’s failing and how it might be remade. He sets the record straight on the oft-made prescriptions for leaders to be honest, authentic, and modest, tell the truth, build trust, and take care of others. By calling BS on so many of the stories and myths of leadership, he gives people a more scientific look at the evidence and better information to guide their careers. Rooted in social science, and will practical examples and advice for improving management, Leadership BS encourages readers to accept the truth and then use facts to change themselves and the world for the better.
“Pfeffer [blends] academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide.” —Jim Collins, author of New York Times bestselling author Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall Some people have it, and others don’t. Jeffrey Pfeffer explores why, in Power. One of the greatest minds in management theory and author or co-author of thirteen books, including the seminal business-school text Managing With Power , Jeffrey Pfeffer shows readers how to succeed and wield power in the real world.
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.
Challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life - and shows how to turn this common sense into common practice.
This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. schovat popis
The book challenges the conventional belief that attracting top talent is the key to success, instead emphasizing the importance of building an organization that empowers all employees to excel. Through detailed case studies from companies like Southwest Airlines and Cisco Systems, the authors illustrate how aligning people management with corporate strategy creates sustained competitive advantage. They highlight a common approach that prioritizes values, implementation, and maximizing the potential of every employee, offering managers a customizable template for developing high-performance organizations.
Confronts the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. This book identifies the causes of the knowing-doing gap and explains how to close it.