Miguel Olivas Lujan take on evidence based management [...]
Immediately after my post on well being of the evidence based management movement, Tracy Altman responded on her blog EvidenceSoup. She also thinks that without a collaborative effort, evidence based management is heading for failure. Her blog focuses on the large variety (like law, medicine, dentistry, business, education, etc.) of evidence based practices. The Evidence Soup Guide to keeping the Evidence-Based Movement Alive. She recently started an new venture called Explanation Science. More about that later.
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When you go to see a doctor, you would like him or her to make medical decisions based on scientific evidence and research. Not stick the first needle or pill in you, because he or she heard rumours that it just might work. However, in management we are still in the middle ages of science, where the alchemists still try to make gold from lead. And by alchemists I mean all types of managers (managers, consultants, coaches, interim-managers, project managers, etc.). One of the reasons why managers still make decisions based on anecdotal evidence, gut feeling or a whim is the fact that management is not a profession. Well, perhaps it is, but we lack a body of knowledge and skills. Everybody with decent credentials (i.e. endorsement, seniority, etc.) can become a manager in contrast with doctors, lawyers or engineers. Management is still treated as a ’skill’ and if you have a better story than the next guy, you just found yourself a new career.
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