...Russell Craig; Dennis Tourish Purpose We encourage CEOs to exercise greater care when using research to inform their decision-making. Design/methodology/approach For analytical framing, we draw on published literature to highlight three common inadequacies of research in leadership...

...Robert I. Sutton States the top reason why managers should take notice of scholarly research is because actions based on sound evidence beat those based on suspect intuition every time. Posits that even academic research at its best is perhaps not that much of a better alternative to guru’s fads...