Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 14, 2012

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. Starting over, you can develop better habits in sending, receiving, and responding to messages, while severing connections with those whom you prefer to leave behind. On vacation?

Power 265

Power Mintzberg Management Learning-by-Doing 265

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One area that deserves particular attention is the notion of the minimal viable product (MVP). Because it's next to impossible to be sure that your idea is good until you bring it into the marketplace, don't waste time trying to fine-tune a product that is destined to be wrong. A company might introduce a product in the marketplace.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. One was that we thought companies should start to think, shall we say, as creatively about the ways they worked as they sometimes do about their products or services. Why shouldn’t we be innovative in the work of management just as we do, we in are the products and technology?

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

It’s also because of the power that face-to-face meetings can have in our own development and the crafting of invaluable relationships. The fascination with the upcoming meeting, event, or deal keeps you fully energized, alert, productive, engaged, and happy. The trick is to travel with purpose and planning.

Travel 8

Travel Drucker Hotels Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

And thinking is in fact quite an important activity when it comes to assessing and developing a strategy. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Firms often suffer from legacy products, projects, or beliefs. Stuff happens. What would an outsider do?

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

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.” Having the same unit do more of the same task leads to continuity, standardization, specialization, leverage, and productivity.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? Lindegaard has spent the last few years developing practical guidance about "open innovation." Horace Dediu.

Innovation 14

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14