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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. We came up with this notion we called the Management Innovation Lab, which had two guiding premises. That’s one set of reasons. It’s not my phrase.

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Purpose Matters for Business Travel, Too

Harvard Business Review

Technology can, of course, help to cement social ties, but only following an original personal experience. Afterwards, in the hotel lobby, I ran into Henry Mintzberg and had a brief conversation about the promising fight against political corruption in Brazil. We have the technology, but we need the guidance and inspiration.”

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

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.” Think, for example, of legal, tax and technology experts, or costly test equipment. It is an age-old question.