Authors explore evidence-based management.(Business)(Business books)

Byline: Jim Pawlak "Hard Facts Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense - Profiting From Evidence-Based Management" by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, Harvard Business School Press, $27.50. The workplace version of "Consumer Reports" - it evaluates virtually every aspect managing a business against old and new thinking and buzz.

The authors' message: The practices marketed by books and articles aren't empirical evidence in the truest sense. They often show success from a relatively narrow view (i.e. case studies of companies where it worked), but ignore ...

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