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5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Because it means that you don’t have much time to think and reflect.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” Consider the Dutch financial services firm ING Bank. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

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.” ” But which exactly are “only those tasks”? It is an age-old question. ” 3.