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Jeffrey Pfeffer

출생: July 23, 1946 – St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a leading authority on leadership, power dynamics, and workplace management. He is the author of more than a dozen influential books, including "Power" and "Leadership BS," and his research has shaped both academic discourse and organizational practice worldwide.

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Jeffrey Pfeffer is recognized as one of the world’s most influential thinkers in organizational behavior, best known for his incisive research on workplace dynamics, leadership, and power. Raised with a firm commitment to intellectual ambition, Pfeffer attended Carnegie-Mellon University, earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees before pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford University. A pivotal early moment in his career came as he realized the conventional path to corporate success was both improbable and unsatisfying for him, leading to a decisive reorientation toward academia. Following a brief stint at a military think tank that left him intellectually unfulfilled, Pfeffer returned to Stanford to pursue research that defied standard paradigms in organizational studies. His doctoral work on resource dependence theory, initially deemed too unconventional by elite institutions, would later become foundational in the field and underpin his swift rise to Full Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business at just 32 years old.

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Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off
-Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't
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The sun’s rays, focused, are much more powerful than they are without focus. The same is true for people seeking power
-Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't
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Being memorable equals getting picked
-Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't
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a large body of empirical research conducted over decades suggests that student evaluations are more than unhelpful; instead, they are likely to change the behaviors of presenters in ways that make learning and personal growth less likely. That is one reason why Armstrong concluded that 'teacher ratings are detrimental to students.'
-Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
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When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary
-Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management
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Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it
-7 Rules of Power
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart
-What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
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If power is to be used for good, more good people need power
-Faculty Voices
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Good leaders can make a small positive difference; bad leaders can make a huge negative difference
-Inspirational Quotes

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University where he has taught since 1979"

Stanford Graduate School of Business

"Jeffrey Pfeffer’s elective course 'Paths to Power' is consistently one of the most popular and somewhat controversial at Stanford GSB"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer's '7 Rules of Power' provides counterintuitive, practical advice firmly rooted in social science research"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer’s research covers human resource management, power and politics in organizations, and evidence-based management"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer has written more than 150 articles and book chapters and is the author of 15 books on management and organizations"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer was elected a fellow of the Academy of Management and is in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer has consulted with corporations and taught management seminars worldwide, including for Sutter Health and Hewlett-Packard"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer is recognized for formalizing the study of resource dependence theory in organizations"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer’s book 'Dying for a Paycheck' analyzes workplace practices that harm employee health, estimating 120,000 excess deaths per year"

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"Jeffrey Pfeffer won the Richard D. Irwin award for scholarly contributions to management research"

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