Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: work, force, power, unleashing, advantage, people, competitive
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 087584717X
ISBN-13: 9780875847177

"Pfeffer has written one of the most important business books in a long time. All in all, a masterful, riveting performance."--Tom Peters.

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: people, first, putting, profits, equation, building, human
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1998-01-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0875848419
ISBN-13: 9780875848419

The lure of new and profitable markets has lead many companies to formulate strategies to capture these markets. This focus on strategy often leads to downsizing and the shedding of old businesses in favor of a "lean" economic model that stresses outsourcing. The strategy that leads to downsizing has its short-term rewards--a fatter bottom line and happy shareholders. Jeffrey Pfeffer argues that much of this downsizing is nothing more than a throwback to 100-year-old employment practices. Instead of cutting costs as a means to increase profits, companies should focus more on building revenue b

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: management, wisdom, unconventional, thinking
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1422103129
ISBN-13: 9781422103128

Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalise 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 i

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: organizations, influence, politics, power, managing
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1993-11-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0875844405
ISBN-13: 9780875844404

An in-depth look at the role of power and influence in organizations. Pfeffer demonstrates the necessity of power in mobilizing political support and resources to get things done in any organization, and he looks at the personal attributes and structural factors that help managers advance organizational goals and achieve individual success.

Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton,
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: knowledge, action, companies, smart, doing, gap, knowing
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578511240
ISBN-13: 9781578511242

The market for business knowledge is booming, as companies looking to improve their performance pour billions of dollars into training programs, consultants, and executive education. Why, then, are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they’ve worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results.Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, well

Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutto,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: profiting, evidence, based, management, nonsense, total, facts, dangerous, truths, hard
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1591398622
ISBN-13: 9781591398622

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. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidenc

Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald Salancik,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: stanford, business, classics, perspective, dependence, control, organizations, resource, external
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-03-26
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 080474789X
ISBN-13: 9780804747899

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories.The External Control of Organizations explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these cons