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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. A client in need of innovation? Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. Most importantly, the implications and action steps became an ‘easy sell’ to my team. Human Resources.

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How are leadership development programs contributing to a more balanced society?

Coaching Ourselves

As the CoachingOurselves marketing director Warren Cohen says: “In the past, the public would recognize and celebrate organizations that made contributions to society. Our co-founder Henry Mintzberg, has long been proclaiming this need for change. This change is now happening at lightning speed. This is no longer sufficient.

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Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan

Harvard Business Review

Many start-up plans emphasize some gigantic potential market and how getting just the smallest sliver of it will make them and investors rich. This is what Henry Mintzberg , a seminal figure in competitive strategy theory, once described as "emergent" or "evolutionary" strategy. Focus on a well-defined market sub-segment or niche.

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

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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Most Valuable Business Insights: 11-15

First Friday Book Synopsis

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11. Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.].

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5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For

Harvard Business Review

As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Companies often engage in new activities – customers, markets, products, and business models – serendipitously, in response to external events and lucky breaks. Stuff happens.