The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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Agility Quinn Mintzberg Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

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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Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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. What would an outsider do?

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