Coaching Ourselves

JUNE 30, 2022

The IDGs is a not-for-profit and open source initiative which currently researches, collects, and communicates science-based skills and qualities to help people live purposeful, sustainable, and productive lives. The mindsets necessary for effective managing are seen to be: Managing self: the reflective mind-set.

Goal 37

Goal Mintzberg Development Globalization 37

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Forbes: Porter or Mintzberg – Whose View of Strategy is the most Relevant Today? ronkarr: Ten Things that Make Me More Productive from @wallybock. ohau8622: Tired of Being Middle Management? Look back, zero in on what worked and adjust your focus. Make Quarter 2 look like the best of Quarter 1. by @profkjmoore.

Mintzberg 218

Mintzberg Porter Micromanagement Middle Management 218

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? My personal crusade here is to bring management back onto an equal putting with leadership.

Competitive Advantage 121

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The message for managers is clear: this is the way to outcompete your business rivals; these are the traits that will bring you and your company commercial victory. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Good management is not like a competitive sport. Why sports metaphors are damaging. ” Research backs this up.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” They also advise that “a strong culture is often all you need.”

Mintzberg 111

Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The fascination with the upcoming meeting, event, or deal keeps you fully energized, alert, productive, engaged, and happy. Afterwards, in the hotel lobby, I ran into Henry Mintzberg and had a brief conversation about the promising fight against political corruption in Brazil.

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.” Companies often engage in new activities – customers, markets, products, and business models – serendipitously, in response to external events and lucky breaks. Stuff happens. What would an outsider do?

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

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.”

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I didn't create any kind of ranking algorithm while making my choices, but did consider three basic criteria: Do the individual's ideas bring clarity to the quest of improving the predictability and productivity of innovation? After all, Lafley's bent is to manage innovation in a systematic, disciplined way. Horace Dediu. Peter Sims.

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15