In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

A client in need of innovation? Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Yep, I can help with that,” I’d say.

Mentor 228

Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

” -Henry Mintzberg. Today’s best managers empower their employees directly while establishing systems and processes (creating teams, skills training, and more) and a culture that supports empowerment. Because they are more innovative than companies with management teams that are not diverse. ” -John Maxwell.

Management 104

Management Diversity Performance Review Review 104

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. For me management it’s a learned skill, it’s like learning to play golf. But arguably organizations in the future will need simply fewer managers, and the ones they need, will have to have rather different skills, much more people based skills. That’s one set of reasons.

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. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.

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.

Mintzberg 16

Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16