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Saturday, May 27, 2006
Which 90% of Management Advice is Crap?
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Saturday, May 27, 2006Which 90% of Management Advice is Crap?
An excerpt from Bob Sutton's essay via the ChangeThis web site:
It turns out that facing the hard facts is something that human beings are remarkably bad at doing. We "shoot the messengers" who bring us bad news; we seek, remember, and act on bad evidence that supports our dearly held beliefs; we avoid, forget, and fail to act on evidence that clashes withour ingrained if flawed ideologies. The best leaders have the courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change their actions when they encounter new evidence.
Sutton is a professor at Stanford University and co-author of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense. I haven't read the book yet, but when I do, I'm guessing it might take its place alongside Flawed Advice and the Management Trap by Chris Argyris and The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner.
Disclaimer: Almost all of the best ideas on this blog came from someone else. Almost all of the really bad ideas are my own.
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