Summary: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Review and Analysis of Pfeffer and Sutton's Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's book "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense" shows how managing a business profitably is hard work, with intense pressures, incomplete information and new ideas that come along every day. Under these conditions, it isn't surprising that many managers sometimes fall victim to "miracle" cures for management challenges or simply adopt the "best practices" of other companies. In their book, the authors explain how this often leads to poor-quality decisions being made that end up wasting time and money. According to Pfeffer and Sutton, the best way is to use "evidence-based management". This summary demonstrates the fundamentals of this approach and how you can apply it to your management techniques to make smart decisions on the pressing issues.
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
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MAIN IDEA
Managing a business profitably is always hard work. There are intense pressures, incomplete information about what’s happening in the marketplace and an army of consultants, advisors and others who come along with new ideas every day. Under these conditions, it isn’t surprising managers sometimes fall victim to hype about miracle
cures for management challenges or simply adopt the best practices
of other successful companies. The result is sometimes poor-quality decisions are made which end up wasting time and money which are badly needed elsewhere.
To avoid these challenges, start using evidence-based management. Every time someone comes up with a new idea:
Ask for tangible evidence that idea is applicable to your circumstances and will work for you.
Clarify the logic behind the proposal – and check faulty reasoning is not being used.
Encourage everyone to experiment on a small scale first to make sure what is being suggested will actually work.
Insist that everyone stays current in their areas of specialization and provide realistic training opportunities so they can.
In total, evidence-based management is all about facing the hard truths about what works for your business and what will not. It is all about basing business decisions on reality rather than the various and potentially dangerous half-truths which commonly are accepted as business wisdom. Evidence-based management is about making smart decisions on the pressing issues.
About the Author
JEFFREY PFEFFER is the professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. He has taught there since 1979. Dr. Pfeffer is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. He currently writes a monthly column for Business 2.0, serves on the board of directors of a number of companies and teaches executive seminars throughout the world. He is the author of eleven books including The Knowing-Doing Gap which he coauthored with Dr. Sutton.