The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era

Chapter 21. Are the Best Leaders Like Professors?: Teaching, Asking Questions, and Evidence-Based Management

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He served on the faculties of the business schools at the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley before coming to Stanford in 1979. He is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action,and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management.He has also published more than one hundred articles and book chapters. Pfeffer serves on the board of directors of SonoSite, ...