Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? HarvardBiz: Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation Try asking "What are you learning?" Stanford GSB: Why Failure Drives Innovation. donhornsby: Good leadership never forgets that its long-term goal is not to create follower but more leaders.

Mintzberg 215

Mintzberg Porter Micromanagement Middle Management 215

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. During this one-on-one meeting, ask your employee to report his or her progress against quantified goals—measuring performance in terms of quantity is important. Because they are more innovative than companies with management teams that are not diverse. ” -Peter Economy.

Management 105

Management Diversity Performance Review Review 105

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Of course, this aspect of the job, which we can put into either the leadership or the management bucket, the way I think about it is if management is about getting things done through people, this stuff about the how in terms of how we coordinate activities, how we make decisions and so forth. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first.

Competitive Advantage 121

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

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. In these circumstances, informal networks can be a countervailing force to legitimate power and the long-term interests of the organization. Yes, it can be self-serving. The High Ground.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. Many curricular innovations, like the critiques they address, remain anchored to a traditional view of the business school as a knowledge hub whose function is to create and disseminate cutting-edge management theories and best practices.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” If you are in charge of an organization, force yourself to have regular and long stretches of uninterrupted time just to think things through. What might be the long-term consequences?

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.” ” And that is a pretty long time, at least since 400 B.C., It is an age-old question.

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Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8