The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. Denise balances management and leadership very effectively. Joel is out of balance with a techno-management approach. She sees people as adults who are generally self-managing. Denise cares about people.

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Energy Power Team Mintzberg 52

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

Curious Cat

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I created the management sub-reddit many years ago. The management sub-reddit provides links to worthwhile management content and the members indicate those links they liked. People who believe they can manage everything often prove themselves capable of managing nothing. by Henry Mintzberg on his blog.

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Mintzberg Meyer Management Agility 40

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.

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Politics Organization Mintzberg Loyalty 53

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

In this month’s Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Purpose of your Purpose?”, And numerous researchers have found that people are concerned not only about themselves but also about doing work that benefits others and contributes to society.”

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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11. Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.].

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Review Books Leadership Mintzberg 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging. ” Research backs this up.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The list includes the brightest stars in the firmament of management thinkers. Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Within their walls, managers revisit their identities and aspirations. After all, we are trained as social scientists and managers.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Managers routinely claim that their strategic planning process creates large, detailed documents, but often little else. It’s as if the process serves no purpose other than to create the plan, and execution is somehow separate. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.

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Strategic Planning Mintzberg Planning Document 15

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. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I found myself walking back to my hotel in the company of leading management thinker Charles Handy, and our ensuing discussion covered topics as diverse as family business succession in China, education in Singapore, the African Leadership Academy, and populism in Latin America.

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Travel Drucker Hotels Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

The ones who who manage to reach the inner circle are at a great advantage. They get more done, but they are also recognized for their competence and ability to manage interpersonal relationships. Standards for promotions and expectations for managing and leading are made clear. Mastery will never be total or permanent.

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Politics Mintzberg Learning-by-Doing Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” In 1990, Al West, the founder and CEO of SEI – the wealth management company that, at the time, was worth $195 million – found himself in a hospital bed for three months after a skiing accident.

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Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images. The Fayol legacy lingers.

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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.”

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Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. There were a ton of great thinkers that didn't quite make the cut, such as Chip and Dan Heath , Geoffrey Moore , Constantinos Markides , Robert Burgelman , Henry Mintzberg , Gary Hamel , Michael Tushman , W. Lafley and not Steve Jobs on my list.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 21