Jeffrey Pfeffer

Stanford Business Professor, World Renowned Management, Leadership and HR Scholar

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Dr. Pfeffer received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from Stanford.  He began his career at the business school at the University of Illinois and then taught at the University of California, Berkeley.  Pfeffer has been a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School, Singapore Management University, London Business School, Copenhagen Business School, and for the past 9 years a visitor at IESE in Barcelona.

Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His research focuses on the relationship between time and money, power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management and what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the author or co-author of over a dozen books including The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First, Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action, Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, and What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management, a collection of 27 essays about management topics, as well as more than 150 articles and book chapters.

Pfeffer currently serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit Quantum Leap Healthcare.  In the past he has served on the boards of Resumix, Unicru, and Workstream, all human capital software companies, Audible Magic, an internet company, SonoSite, a company designing and manufacturing portable ultrasound machines, and the San Francisco Playhouse, a non-profit theater.

Pfeffer has presented seminars in 38 countries throughout the world as well as doing consulting and providing executive education for numerous companies, associations, and universities in the United States.

Jeffrey Pfeffer has won the Richard I. Irwin Award presented by the Academy of Management for scholarly contributions to management and numerous awards for his articles and books.  He is listed in the top 25 management thinkers by Thinkers 50, and as one of the Most Influential HR International Thinkers by HR Magazine. In November, 2011, he was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Tilburg University in The Netherlands.

 

TOPICS

Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Dying for a paycheck: Social sustainability at work

Turning knowledge into action and getting things done.

Building high performance organizations and cultures.

The paths to power.

Managing in tough times: What companies have done right, and mostly wrong.

Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense: Profiting from evidence-based management.

 

EL FIN DE LA SUPERSTICION EN EL MANAGEMENT: LA NUEVA DIRECCION DE EMPRERSAS BASADA EN LA EVIDENCIA

Aunque parezca sorprendente, las decisiones que se toman a diario en el mundo de la empresa suelen estar condicionadas por generalizaciones y opiniones sesgadas. Algunos ejecutivos se limitan a copiar estrategias que parecen dar buenos resultados; otros asimilan cualquier teoría novedosa que augure un éxito instantáneo. Est e libro analiza a fondo ciertas convenciones que a menudo aceptamos como axiomas: ¿Las mejores empresas son las que poseen ejecutivos estrella? ¿Son los incentivos una garantía de mejor rendimiento profesional? ¿Es siempre imprescindible renovarse o morir? Si usted está dispuesto a adoptar una política empresarial basada en hechos y no en especulaciones, Jeffrey Pfeffer y Robert I. Sutton le proporcionarán las claves que debe manejar todo buen líder empresarial: no se conforme con perpetuar las estrategias que ya funcionaron en el pasado pero, al mismo tiempo, desconfíe de las recetas milagrosas

EL FIN DE LA SUPERSTICION EN EL MANAGEMENT: LA NUEVA DIRECCION DE EMPRERSAS BASADA EN LA EVIDENCIA

¿EN QUE ESTARIAN PENSANDO?

Este libro presenta un recopilatorio de reflexiones y ejemplos sobre el comportamiento directivo y cómo, en ocasiones, un liderazgo pragmático, afable y racional puede conducir a la retención del capital humano y a la mejora de la efectividad y de la productividad para lograr una organización más experimentada y eficiente.

¿EN QUE ESTARIAN PENSANDO?

HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF-TRUTHS, AND TOTAL NONSENSE: PROFITING FROM EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT

Jeffrey PfefferThe 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. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life - and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice

HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF-TRUTHS, AND TOTAL NONSENSE: PROFITING FROM EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT

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

Over decades of consulting with corporations and the people who run them and 30 years teaching MBA students the nuances of organisational power, Jeffrey Pfeffer has watched numerous people suffer career reversals even as others prevail despite the odds. The most common mistake: most of us don't have a realistic understanding of what makes some people more successful than others. We tend to subscribe to the just world phenomenon, believing that life is fair, rendering us unprepared for the challenges and competition of the real world. Now, Pfeffer brings decades of research and incredible insights to a wide audience. Brimming with counterintuitive advice, numerous examples from a variety of countries, and surprising but research-based findings, his groundbreaking guide reveals the strategies and tactics that separate the winners from the losers. Power, he argues, is a force that can be used and harnessed for individual gain, but also for the benefit of organisations and society. Power, however, cannot be learned from those in charge - their advice often puts a rosy spin on their ascent and focuses on what should have worked, rather than what did. Instead, he reveals the actual paths to power and career success. Iconoclastic and grounded in the realpolitik of human interaction, "Power" is an essential organisational survival manual and a new standard in the field of leadership and management.

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

LEADERSHIP BS

In Leadership BS, Jeffrey Pfeffer shines a bright light on the leadership industry, showing why it’s failing and how it might be remade. He sets the record straight on the oft-made prescriptions for leaders to be honest, authentic, and modest, tell the truth, build trust, and take care of others. By calling BS on so many of the stories and myths of leadership, he gives people a more scientific look at the evidence and better information to guide their careers.

Rooted in social science, and will practical examples and advice for improving management, Leadership BS encourages readers to accept the truth and then use facts to change themselves and the world for the better.

LEADERSHIP BS

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