Managing With Power

By Jeffrey Pfeffer,

Book cover of Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations

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Although much as been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing. The big problem facing managers and their organizations today is one of implementation--how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Problems of implementation are really issues of how to influence…

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This one book will help you accomplish three important goals. First, a lot of collaboration and alliance work generates innovative ideas that become decisions – but implementing decisions, especially innovative ones, is hard. This book is a classic work on how to push reluctant organizations into implementing what’s good for them to do. Second, whenever there is a network of connected people and firms, there will be power dynamics. This book gives recipes for how to handle them successfully. Third, building networks not just for information, but also for power, is always good for you, and there is a wealth…

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