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title: "Management maxims in need of a makeover"
url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/03/21/management-maxims-in-need-of-a-makeover/
description: "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…"
published: 2006-03-21
updated: 2006-03-21
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# Management maxims in need of a makeover

Published 2006-03-21

March 21, 2006 · [Process improvement](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/process-improvement/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/)

> 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*. Gathering the work of psychologists, sociologists, and management experts, the authors make a compelling case that some of business’s beloved truths are far from self-evident.

[USNews.com: Management maxims in need of a makeover](http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060327/27eepfeffer.intro.htm)

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