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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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? It depends on the choices leaders make and the eco-systems they create. Professor Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management IMD. ? You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict.

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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.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sometimes it’s actually down to the systems and organization we create, which actually make it very difficult for even well-intentioned people to do it well. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. We came up with this notion we called the Management Innovation Lab, which had two guiding premises. That’s one set of reasons.

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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.

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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. The high ground combines formal authority with organizational systems; I use the term to describe the rules, structures, policy guidelines, and procedures that form the basis of political activities.

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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.,

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