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Bedtime Stories For Managers

Eric Jacobson

Nights this month, unplug from your mobile phone and both enjoy and learn from Henry Mintzberg ’s 42 former blog posts compiled into his new book, Bedtime Stories for Managers. The stories teach you how to transform an organization from one that: Functions as collections of Human Resources to communities of human beings.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

Human Resources. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. By applying Jacobs Suchard’s brands and businesses to HBR’s models, I was able to pin-point weaknesses and bring clarity to missing opportunities. But shortly after rising to the corporate throne, people and culture became my mantra.

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Wait, I’m the Boss?!? The Guide for New Managers to Succeed

Skip Prichard

” -Henry Mintzberg. Great managers attract and retain great employees, while the best employees quickly look for new opportunities when they are forced to work with a bad one. “Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.” Great managers do four things better than mediocre ones: (1) Empower.