Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Today, businesses are in permanent crisis mode. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? Charles Handy, Social Philosopher. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

They’re creating an energy crisis. Develop a rigorous performance management system that identifies your A, B, and C players. Too many managers have turned “people are our most important resource” into an empty cliché. The rhetoric doesn’t match reality. Are you promoting your cultural standard barriers?

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

To get our discussion going, our group reviewed some material on the various political games that get played in organizations based on work by Henry Mintzberg (author Managers Not MBA’s and Prof at McGill University). Whether you’re aware of it or not. Frankly, I never realized there were so many different games. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Thus, the development of an informal coalition saved the organization and political activities, in this case, were a force for good. Yes, it can be self-serving.

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