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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. Henry Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University. Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes? Was it at home over the weekend?

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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. Henry Mintzberg is the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University. Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes? Was it at home over the weekend?

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. 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.”

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

LDRLB

But that’s a pretty lame answer quite honestly because an awful lot of good management is actually about delegating you which is about of course spreading up your time rather than taking more of your time. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. That’s one set of reasons. It’s not my phrase.

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What Strategists Can Learn from Architecture

Harvard Business Review

We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.