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Three Myths of Management

In a new book, Stanford professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton assail popular yet shaky-maybe even harmful-management practices. Our excerpt starts with a hot trend: benchmarking.

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Subject(s): Management, Organizational Behavior

Source(s): HBS Working Knowledge

Posted: 2006-08-11

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