Management Advice: Which 90% is Crapview details
"The people who sell management ideas are a lot like the Merck representatives who sold Vioxx to doctors: The financial incentives for getting you to buy their stuff blind them to the drawbacks and entice them to mislead their customers."
Why Managing by Facts Worksview details
"From our research, we are convinced that when companies base decisions on evidence, they enjoy a competitive advantage. And even when little or no data is available, there are things executives can do that allow them to rely more on evidence and logic an
Intuition vs. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Some Rough Ideasview details
"The trouble with intuition is that we now have a HUGE pile of research on cognitive biases and related flaws in decision-making that show "gut feelings" are highly suspect. Look-up confirmation bias --- people have a very hard time believing and remembe
12 Things Good Bosses Believeview details
"My success — and that of my people — depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods."
Leading vs. Managing: A False Choiceview details
"I am not rejecting the distinction between leadership and management, but I am saying that the best leaders do something that might properly be called a mix of leadership and management. At a minimum, they lead in a way that constantly takes into account the importance of management. Meanwhile, the worst senior executives use the distinction between leadership and management as an excuse to avoid the details they really have to master to see the big picture and select the right strategies."