Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! Seth Godin says, “This is the management book of the year. Aaron Dignan.
Leading Blog
MARCH 13, 2023
Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. Structuring in Sevens.
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Mike Cardus
APRIL 24, 2022
Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. The research and development manager or lead scientist will tend to favor the rigorous analysis of science.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Jon Feingersh/Getty Images. The Fayol legacy lingers.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 26, 2017
By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. 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.”
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Managers routinely claim that their strategic planning process creates large, detailed documents, but often little else. A Level 3 plan identifies the main organizational units responsible for different parts of the strategy and the operating model that links these organisational units together.
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.
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