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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. What advice do you have to the new manager who wants just one thing to focus on to start off right? The best advice I can give to a new manager is to do everything they can to learn how to be a good—even a great manager. . What advice do you give to that manager? ” -John Wooden.

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Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan

Harvard Business Review

This is what Henry Mintzberg , a seminal figure in competitive strategy theory, once described as "emergent" or "evolutionary" strategy. Per Lederhausen's advice, set the right first "start small" milestone; it will usually involve seeing people's willingness to buy or at least try your product. It's not just start-ups.

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Many curricular innovations, like the critiques they address, remain anchored to a traditional view of the business school as a knowledge hub whose function is to create and disseminate cutting-edge management theories and best practices. "I