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 ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Date Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: Very Good. Ships within 24 hours! Very nice condition, read once book with some edge wear and corner rubbing to DJ. Pages crisp, clean with no markings. Always courteous and honest service! read more
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: 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
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781591398622ISBN:1591398622
Description: Fair in very good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. MANY PAGES WITH FOLDED CORNERS; UNDERLINING AND CHECK MARKS; THIS IS A READING COPY ONLY. OTHERWISE BOOK IS CLEAN, HAS STURDY BINDING AND IS IN GOOD SHAPE. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 276 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 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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