About this title: 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 - ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Date published: 2006-03-01
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: Like New in Used; Like New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Through evidence-based management, business leaders face the hard facts and act on the best evidence-trumping the competition. They also view common beliefs about effective management with healthy skepticism. To demonstrate the dangers lurking. Clean tight and bright. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
Date published: 2006-02-28
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781591398622. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education(Harvard Business School Press)
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.598 by 6.5 inches. 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: Good. Expect some normal wear including possible highlighting, writing in margins, and worn cover, but will try to ship best book in stock. Independent college bookseller since 1890. Typically ship by next business day, if not same day. We do not sell International editions. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard Business School Publishing
Date published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: New. 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. read more
"The irony of this book can't be overstated. In the chapter about the difference between correlation and causation (which explains ad nauseum how people confuse the two), there is a section about social promotion in schools, that lays out a cost argument... based on correlation.
And that's one of the most analytical pieces of the book.
I am a few hours closer to death. I want that oxygen back."
"I'm in the middle of this book, and I have to say that it is eye opening. It provides a great road map for evidence based management instead of chasing the latest fads. A must read for every manager and aspiring manager."
"It starts out great. It really brings home the idea that very few if any business practices are ever really tests. People make assumptions that not only they never question, but that eventually become part of established business literature.
Then it slowly devolves into your standard blah blah business text where the points are so vague, or contradictory, as to make the book not that worthwhile.
But the essentially point is good. If you want to know if something is working, test it."
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