What Were They Thinking?

About the Author

JEFFREY PFEFFER is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or coauthor of twelve 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; and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management, as well as more than 110 articles and book chapters. Dr. Pfeffer received his BS and MS degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and ...