Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Aaron Dignan.
Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2023
Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Partnering to venture jointly Here the borders blur further, as independent organizations partner to design, develop, and/or market particular products and services.
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Mike Cardus
APRIL 24, 2022
Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. The research and development manager or lead scientist will tend to favor the rigorous analysis of science.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. But, if we want to execute the strategy, we will realise that we need to develop plans at Level 3 and Level 4.
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. 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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2015
Yet, most also know that developing political competence is not a choice; it’s a necessity. Political know-how becomes important — and those who fail to develop such skills are often the ones who get left behind. Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.”
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