The 5 myths of management

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FEATURE: The 5 myths of management What if some of the business world's most dearly held axioms are wrong? What if there is a better way? This is the argument Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, management professors at Stanford University, make in their new book, out this week, "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management."

Forget those cliches. These professors say it's time to follow the evidence: http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a144189a386406792a0

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