Power of People Prognosticator

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. Pfeffer’s anticipated book, tentatively entitled Power: An Organizational Survival Guide will be published in early 2010 by HarperCollins.

He has also served on the business school faculties at the Harvard Business School, the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley. He currently sits on the board of directors for four companies.

Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management—what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.

Jeffrey is the best selling author or co-author of thirteen books and more than 100 articles including:

• What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management (Harvard Business Press, 2007)
• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management with Robert I. Sutton (Harvard Business Press, 2006)
• The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2003)
• The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2002)
• Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People (Harvard Business School Press, 2000).

From 2003-2007, Pfeffer wrote a monthly column, “The Human Factor,” for the 600,000-person circulation business magazine, Business 2.0. Since 2007, he has written a monthly column providing career advice for Capital, a leading business and economics magazine in Turkey. Pfeffer has appeared in segments on CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and CNBC as well as television programs in Korea, and has been quoted and featured in news articles from countries around the globe.

Jeffrey has presented keynote addresses and consulted for Fortune 500 corporations in over 25 countries. He brings unparalled breadth and depth of knowledge to every speaking engagement, eliciting such audience comments as: “Brilliant! He should speak for hours”, “Everyone was mesmerized-not a peep in the audience!” and “Spectacular! Tangible examples of success made his message convincing.” His current talks include Knowing-Doing, or Turning Knowledge into Action and Getting Things Done, The Paths to Power, Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Workforce, and Building High Performance Organizations. Jeffrey has presented keynote addresses and consulted for Fortune 500 corporations in over 25 countries. He brings unparalled breadth and depth of knowledge to every speaking engagement, eliciting such audience comments as: “Brilliant! He should speak for hours”, “Everyone was mesmerized-not a peep in the audience!” and “Spectacular! Tangible examples of success made his message convincing.” His current talks include Knowing-Doing, or Turning Knowledge into Action and Getting Things Done, The Paths to Power, Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Workforce, and Building High Performance Organizations.