Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg, OC OQ FRSCis an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1939
CountryCanada
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government community private-sector
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
hazards prime managers
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
weed garden tomatoes
Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
obsession seems uncertainty
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.
important speech information
An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.
data may intellect
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
thinking generations doe
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
corporations economic social
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
data theory researchers
Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.
art creativity practice
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
dirty library information
Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.
smart ideas two
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.
discipline understanding marketing
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.
skills organization work-out
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills.