In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

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. Human Resources. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Strategy.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

Too many managers have turned “people are our most important resource” into an empty cliché. Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’ ’ And in marketing one does not begin with the question, What do we want? Is Your Leadership Engaging or Enraging?

Energy 52

Energy Power Team Mintzberg 52

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

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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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Many start-up plans emphasize some gigantic potential market and how getting just the smallest sliver of it will make them and investors rich. At a business's inception, resources are limited, and the best content for a business plan is real-world data based on testing aspects of the concept. percent of the people in China.

Planning 20

Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

One can throw more resources at it, work harder, and whip others into expending more effort too, but the organizational elements that make up a working firm – which by themselves may not be rocket science – need to gradually blend together to grow into a well-functioning organization. ” Research backs this up.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” The reality is that plans have to be made about the use of a company’s resources all of the time. Some are short-term, others stretch into an imagined future.

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Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15