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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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But that’s a pretty lame answer quite honestly because an awful lot of good management is actually about delegating you which is about of course spreading up your time rather than taking more of your time. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. That’s one set of reasons. It’s not my phrase. So that was premise number one.