Competence alone will not take you to the top, says leadership expert Jeffrey Pfeffer
Name: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Age: 65
Designation: Thomas D. Dee Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University
Work: Author of 13 books including The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action and Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total
Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management (both with Robert Sutton).
Education: B.S. and M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and Ph.D. from Stanford University
Next up: Pfeffer is now researching the effect of organisations on human health. “Lay-offs increase mortality. Long working hours increase blood pressure. There are lots of things that we are doing in modern society that make people unhealthy,” he says.
(This story appears in the 29 July, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)