Book · 2006 · Business & Economics
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Profiting from Evidence-based Management
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton has been mentioned in 1 episode across 1 podcast (1 episode recommends it and 0 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by Ronny Kohavi (1 episode) on Lenny's Podcast (1 episode).
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There's a slightly older book that I love called hard facts dangerous half-truths and total nonsense uh by the Stanford professors from The Graduate School of Business very interesting to see many of the things that we grew up with as sort of well understood turn out to have no uh justification.
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton is a research-backed business book that challenges conventional management practices and evaluates whether widely accepted corporate wisdom holds up to empirical scrutiny. On Lenny's Podcast, in the episode The ultimate guide to A/B testing broadcast on July 27, 2023, Ronny Kohavi talked about the publication with Lenny Rachitsky. Ronny recommended the slightly older book, noting that it was written by Stanford professors from the Graduate School of Business. He expressed his fascination with seeing how many practices people grew up treating as well-understood and established turned out to have no factual justification upon closer examination. The speaker praised the authors' rigorous approach to separating evidence-based management from popular corporate myths and unproven fads. The endorsement underscored the importance of testing assumptions and relying on systematic data rather than intuition alone when making critical organizational decisions, making it a vital read for evidence-driven leaders and professionals.
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Ronny Kohavi there's a slightly older book that I love called hard facts dangerous half-truths and total nonsense uh by… 1
“there's a slightly older book that I love called hard facts dangerous half-truths and total nonsense uh by the Stanford professors from The Graduate School of Business very interesting to see many of the things that we grew up with as sort of well understood turn out to have no uh justification”