Jeffrey Pfeffer

Power: Why Some People Have It-and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

In this crowning achievement, one of the greatest minds in management theory reveals how to succeed and wield power in the real world.

Over decades of consulting with corporations and teaching MBA students the...

Managing With Power

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Although much as been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing. The big problem facing managers and their organizations today is one of implementation--how to get things...

The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action

by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton

Why 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...

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management

by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton

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...

What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalize on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success.

Based on his popular column in Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers...