Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

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.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules. Nearly every goal is achieved by going around people or formal procedures. Find another way to get what you want or change the goal. Political behavior, where it does exist, is low-key or deniable.

Politics 8

Politics Mintzberg Learning-by-Doing Organization 8