Summary: The Knowing-Doing Gap: Review and Analysis of Pfeffer and Sutton's Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton's book "The Knowing-Doing Gap" raises a crucial question: why do elements such as education, training and business research generate so little change in what managers and organisations do? According to the authors, knowledge is good, but action is better. They demonstrate that value in the real world is created by the transformation of knowledge into action.
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Book Presentation: The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
Book Abstract
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Why do so much education, training, management consulting and business research as well as so many published books and articles actually generate so little change in what managers and organizations do?
Simply because it’s not what the people in any organization know that counts most – it’s what they do. In other words, knowledge is great, but action is everything. Therefore, smart companies are constantly coming up with better ways to increase the amount of in-house knowledge that actually gets applied in the marketplace.
Conceptually, this is easy to visualize as a set of bridges
spanning the gap between what’s known and whatever is applied.
Whichever organization manages to build the strongest and most numerous bridges between what the company knows and what it does will outperform all others.
Value in the real world is created by the transformation of knowledge into action, not merely by the possession of knowledge.
About the Author
JEFFREY PFEFFER is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is an experienced lecturer, a teacher of executive seminars and serves on the board of directors of a number of corporations and educational journals. Dr. Pfeffer is the author of eight books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, and is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University (B.S. and M.S.) and Stanford University (Ph.D.)
ROBERT SUTTON is Professor of Organizational