Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Today, businesses are in permanent crisis mode. Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? It gives you the ability to love, learn and lose it! We need a story that moves us and a space that holds us. Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD. ? The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

They’re creating an energy crisis. Management professor, researcher, and author, Henry Mintzberg, points to a critical leadership issue, “Organizations should be built, and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. The rhetoric doesn’t match reality.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. And, in times of crisis and uncertainty, communication is more important than ever. Great managers attract and retain great employees, while the best employees quickly look for new opportunities when they are forced to work with a bad one. Great managers do four things better than mediocre ones: (1) Empower.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To get our discussion going, our group reviewed some material on the various political games that get played in organizations based on work by Henry Mintzberg (author Managers Not MBA’s and Prof at McGill University). Whether you’re aware of it or not. Frankly, I never realized there were so many different games. Happy leading!

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” It’s a non-renewable energy crisis. Personal Purpose Pathways and Pitfalls.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. I call this the “the rocks” because rocks can symbolize a stabilizing foundation that keeps an organization steady in times of crisis. Yes, it can be self-serving.

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