BNET Intercom: Useful Commute: Why Conventional Management Wisdom Is Flawed (8:35 min. audio interview with Jeffrey Pfeffer). December 10, 2007

BNET Book Brief Video: What Were They Thinking? (4:26 min.) December 6, 2007

Think Harder; Do Different. Jeffrey Pfeffer on The Krow Show with Paul McLoughlin, October 17, 2007

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. No excuses leadership. Leader to Leader, 2007:46, October 2007, pp. 31-34 [full-text available to subscribers to EBSCO's Academic Search Premier]

Pfeffer, Jeffrey. Sins of Commission. The Conference Board Review, 44:4, July/August 2007, pp. 33-35 [full-text available to subscribers to EBSCO's Business Source Complete]

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer -- an interview with Guy Kawasaki, Kawasaki's Blog, July 13, 2007.

What Others are Saying

"I love this book because it is so much like sitting down and talking with him.  It contains a series of "rational rants" -- that is how I think of Pfeffer, an emotional and persuasive person, but one whose passions are driven by evidence and logic ..." -- Bob Sutton, Sutton's Blog, January 12, 2007.

"There is much to laud about the objective perspective that Stanford professor and author Pfeffer brings to business. First and foremost, he calls ’em as he sees ’em, showcasing common management errors and building on four years as a Business 2.0 columnist." -- Barbara Jacobs, Booklist, 103:19/20, June 1, 2007, p. 14 [full-text available to subscribers to EBSCO's Academic Search Premier]

"In 28 succinct chapters, Pfeffer provides a kind of alternative MBA in how not to run a business. While this may not be a book you would want to sit down and read from cover to cover - we can only take so much reality - its thematically grouped chapters would serve as a useful crib whenever you are faced with apparently insoluble management dilemmas." -- Stefan Stern, Financial Times, July 17, 2007 [full-text available to subscribers to ABI-INFORM Global]

"Change is good _ but not always. Pfeffer, a Stanford University professor, looks at business decisions that were made mostly for the right reasons but proved to be bad choices that conveyed the opposite of what was intended." -- Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald (Florida), August 3, 2007

"Author Pfeffer, a longtime professor at Stanford Business School and author or co-author of a number of management
books, cogently and succinctly dissects a lot of common thinking about management strategies and finds it wanting." -- Jeffrey Marshall. Financial Executive, 23:7, September 2007, p. 17 [full-text available to subscribers to EBSCO's Business Source Complete]

"Last year, he co-authored with Robert Sutton Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense, which I chose as the best business book of 2006 for its hard-nosed, logical explanation of business myths. He's back with a series of essays - expansions of the column he has been writing for Business 2.0 magazine - that look at conventional wisdom about management and offer an alternative, more compelling, argument. The topics are diverse, from how companies get smarter to what to do about executive pay..." -- Harvey Schachter, The Globe and Mail, October 24, 2007 [full-text available to subscribers to LexisNexis Academic and Factiva databases]

"When a 20-year veteran of Stanford tells you you're making a poor business choice, it pays to listen. If that B-school don has just been named among the 50 top management thinkers in the world, you would do well to give him your undivided attention. So, when that professor _ and author of 12 books on management _ writes a book listing out the mistakes organisations make, it does seem predestined to be called a must-read..." -- Meenakshi Radhakrishnan-Swami, Business Standard, December 13, 2007 [full-text available to subscribers to Factiva database]