Readings-Evidence-Based Management and Good to Great

Evidence-Based Management & Good to Great, or Just Good?

If you want to have an operation, ask a surgeon if you need one. Ask a professor of organizational behavior if your management is not managing correctly, and he will tell you they are not. The system that is in place across the country and the world for that matter, limits the ability for managers to grasp these concepts. Even if they grasp them, in most organizations, implementing Evidence-based management is easier said than done. You would have to have most of your people on board with it, which would mean that they would all have to understand it, and believe in it. I believe that currently, social systems are in place to limit management and physicians ability to implement evidence-based management.

I am a strong believer in Intuition and its power to prevail over evidence-based decisions. I believe that management should always evaluate evidence and statistics first, before making a decision, but in the end, if after all the evidence is looked at, they think it just doesn’t feel right, then they should make the decision based off of their gut. I think that this opinion is shared by a lot of people, but not voiced strongly because of the lack of evidence to support it. Interesting that my statement on this topic is not supportable either.

As for “Good to Great, or Just Good?” Interesting statistical evaluation of an article that could not be supported based off of the existing evidence. I would think that maybe the author was looking at other things as well, and maybe if all the managers in the United States think the book is in the top 10 business books in America or the World for that matter, that maybe it has something that the Evidence-Based Management can not see.