The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered. These leaders do it with their partners, rather than doing it to or for them.

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Energy Power Team Mintzberg 52

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. 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.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. Today’s best managers empower their employees directly while establishing systems and processes (creating teams, skills training, and more) and a culture that supports empowerment. Over the course of a 40-year career, this amounts to average of $900,000 in lost earnings. [2] ” -John Wooden.

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Management Diversity Performance Review Review 104

Management Excellence

DECEMBER 11, 2010

by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel. Also, there’s the reality that many management books struggle to adequately fill the space between the book-covers, offering up their best in the introduction, the first chapter and the wrap-up chapter. Here are my thoughts on: Management? It's Not What You Think!

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Mintzberg Books Management Review 58

Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

Using materials provided by our colleagues at Coaching Ourselves , our lively group of mid-career leaders explored the topic of politics in organizations and reinforced my own view that “playing the game” is a daily reality in organizations… and may even spill over into your personal life. Whether you’re aware of it or not. Happy leading!

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Politics Organization Mintzberg Loyalty 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Leaders are not made of knowledge and skills alone. A growing segment of the workforce no longer spends their careers in the same organization, city, or even country. The public and the press are not alone in raising the question.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Political know-how becomes important — and those who fail to develop such skills are often the ones who get left behind. So, how do you know which type of organization you’re working in, and how do you develop the skills to survive there, especially if it’s not in your nature to play politics? It happens.

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Politics Mintzberg Learning-by-Doing Organization 8