Coaching Ourselves

MARCH 1, 2024

We currently have 100 topics available on management, leadership, and organizational issues by renowned organizational thinkers such as Edgar Schein, Henry Mintzberg, Sally Helgesen, and many others. CoachingOurselves can help you transform potentially challenging conversations into opportunities for learning, insight sharing, and innovation.

Schein 26

Schein Mintzberg Decentralization Emotional Intelligence 26

Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As our co-founder Henry Mintzberg has stated in his blog, the obvious theme on which to focus the efforts to rebalance society is climate change. She researches sustainability-oriented innovation, and the role of business in delivering the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

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Mintzberg Management Middle Management Innovation 35

Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Our co-founder Henry Mintzberg, has long been proclaiming this need for change. Unfortunately, in-house leadership programs in organizations have not caught up and are still focused on innovation, collaboration, and performance. This change is now happening at lightning speed. In his book Rebalancing Society , he writes: “Enough!

Leadership Development 26

Leadership Development Development Mintzberg Letter 26

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. Because they are more innovative than companies with management teams that are not diverse. 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. for every dollar a man makes.

Management 104

Management Diversity Performance Review Review 104

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. That’s one thing I’ve really, really enjoyed in some of your past work, even before the book in working with Gary Hamel and setting up the Management Innovation Lab, which was the precursor to the Management Innovation eXchange, the MIX, which a lot of people might be familiar with.

Competitive Advantage 121

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

I'm a huge fan of this work and suggest that all innovators study the movement closely. Let real customers use the product and learn from their feedback (Henry Mintzberg dubbed this process "emergent strategy" in an influential 1985 article [PDF] ). The concept is pretty simple. Instead, put something "good enough" in the marketplace.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

This is what Henry Mintzberg , a seminal figure in competitive strategy theory, once described as "emergent" or "evolutionary" strategy. It's not just start-ups. The strategic architecture of any business should incorporate facts from real world testing to allow one to adjust course as necessary.

Planning 20

Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

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

APRIL 24, 2017

According to McGill’s Henry Mintzberg , it’s just another influencing process along with norms, formal authority and expertise. Such groups can also revitalize innovation and change. 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

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Afterwards, in the hotel lobby, I ran into Henry Mintzberg and had a brief conversation about the promising fight against political corruption in Brazil. I had to catch a 7AM flight the following morning, but I never would have passed up the chance to make those personal connections.

Travel 8

Travel Drucker Hotels Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” .” If you can’t find time to think, it probably means that you haven’t organized your firm, unit, or team very well, and you are busy putting out little fires all the time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

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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Review Books Leadership Mintzberg 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

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.” radical innovation); Investments in initiatives whose benefits are contingent on everybody’s participation (e.g.,

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8