Course overview
The award winning Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University has written and lectured extensively on organisational behaviour and power dynamics within the workplace. His most recent work, Dying for a Paycheck, analyses the detrimental effect that certain commonplace workplace practices have upon the health of employees. Prof Pfeffer has partnered with Business Learning to provide you with insight from one of the greatest thinkers in organisational behaviour, helping to inform your own leadership practices.
What others are saying about Jeffrey Pfeffer:
“Jeff Pfeffer is of immense service to the world with his work, blending academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide.” (Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall)
“Talk about speaking truth to power! In refreshingly candid prose, Jeff Pfeffer offers brilliant insights into how power is successfully built, maintained, and employed in organizations. It’s well known that when Pfeffer speaks about power, smart people listen. This book shows why.” (Robert Cialdini, author of Influence)
“Jeff Pfeffer nails it! Political skill, not just talent, is central to success in every field. In Power, this leading scholar comes down to earth with practical, even contrarian, tactics for mastering the power game.” (Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chaired Professor, Harvard Business School, and bestselling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End and SuperCorp)
“[Power] will help you get comfortable with challenging assumptions and lingering on the pause….[Pfeffer] draws on a wealth of social-science and psychology research.” (Inc.)
“Its candor, crisp prose, and forthrightness are fresh and appealing… Brimming with frank, realistic insights on paths to the top, this book offers unexpected―and aggressive―directions on how to advance and flourish in an ever-more competitive workplace.” (Publishers Weekly)
“[Academics and consultants] have an interest in presenting business as a rational enterprise…. This leaves the analysis of power to retired businesspeople…(who strive to present themselves as business geniuses rather than Machiavellis) and practicing snake-oil salesmen…Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford Business School is an exception to this rule.” (The Economist)
“[Power] ought to be required reading for would-be leaders…[E]xcellent.” (Financial Times)
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About the expert
Jeffrey Pfeffer
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 co-author of 15 books including: • Leadership B.S.: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time; • The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First; • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’t; • The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action; • Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management • And more than 150 articles and book chapters. • In March, 2018, HarperCollins will publish Pfeffer’s latest book, Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—And What We Can Do About It.
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