The book begins to arrive in bookstores. The time has come to give some information.
Facts and hogwash in the management appeared in the United States under the title Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense In 2006. Jeff Pfeffer and Bob Sutton have therefore written before the drafting of to Zero-sale-con by Sutton.
The back cover:
what makes people in the workplace and elsewhere, that financial incentives ...
• A successful business relies primarily on its strategy ...
• A company must know how to master change ...
• What it takes for a business is a great leader ...So many compelling examples of statements that you've probably already heard ... and for good reason, since they often inspire management and decision making in companies. And if they were false or only partially true? For example, if the financial incentives and had consequences that affect performance? And whether to focus on strategy rather than on operational efficiency, was put next to the plate? And if the change was sometimes worse than no change? And if the "great leaders" played only a minor role in the performance of their business?
Questions - among others - met by this iconoclastic book based on a simple observation: management relies most often not on the analysis of facts, but on beliefs inspired by hope, anguish, or ideology. The decisions of managers based on very incomplete information, often biased and poorly analyzed. In many cases, they are not based on independent thinking but the thoughtless imitation of what competitors are doing.
But another management is possible ... The authors thus propose the development of "management based the evidence ". Rather than bludgeon truths supposedly insurmountable, they invite the managers to replace the pernicious half-truths and misconceptions by the evidence of the facts and engaging method to achieve this.
A stimulating reading to end misconceptions about the management!
The authors maintain a website on "evidence based management ", or "evidence-based management", while English course. The blog Robert Sutton (all in English) includes many other interesting developments in information and the subject.
This blog will contain information about the book and the press, as well as excerpts of the book, which will be chosen according to the news. Excerpts from the blog of Robert Sutton and Jeff Pfeffer texts will be translated.
This blog is open. Comments are welcome (and the number of comments received on the ticket Annie Kahn World yesterday shows that the subject of interest ...). As Hervé Laroche wrote in his introduction:
Reading Facts and hogwash, the reader will find several books in one. The first book (actually the second part!) Proposes a " hit parade "of misconceptions - pernicious half-truths - that prevail today in the managerial world and who do so much damage. These ideas are discussed in the light of accumulated knowledge management research. This leads the authors to acknowledge their some substance, but also to produce a critical thrust. In short, to separate the wheat from the chaff - which is often dominant. [...] Six
half-truths, it is without doubt, the authors acknowledge, a very limited exploration designs uncertain or downright stupid that proliferate in the managerial world. Their findings are also invitations to continue the exercise. Readers to add their favorite crap. The French reader, thinker willing, may sometimes noted significant differences between the very American context in which the authors are and that in which it operates. He does not forget, after welcoming does not suffer the foolishness of the Atlantic, track our rubbish from the land, half truths our homegrown! Most importantly, beyond the reporting of errors of others, he looks without his indulgence own illusions.
So feel free to write us (marie-pierre.vaslet @ vuibert.fr) to send us your "Favorite crap" or your thoughts on the subject.
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