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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Yes, it can be self-serving. However, the reality is that politics is normal.

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