TY - BOOK AU - Pfeffer, Jeffrey. TI - Managing with power: politics and influence in organizations SN - 087584314X AV - HD30.23 .P47 1992 U1 - 658.4095 PY - 1992/// CY - Boston, Mass. PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Decision-making KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Organizational behavior N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-377) and index N2 - Although much has been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing. The big problem facing managers and their organizations today is one of implementation--how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Stanford Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer argues that problems of implementation are really issues of how to influence behavior, change the course of events, overcome resistance, and get people to do things they would not otherwise do. In a word, power ER -