Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Welcome, Engaging Management Henry Mintzberg. Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management. Bedtime Stories for Managers : Farewell, Lofty Leadership. 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
It appears to be common amongst first-line operating managers, such as factory foremen and project managers. Reference: Mintzberg, H. Managers, not MBAs: A hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. Effective leadership requires all three. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.
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. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Yes, it can be self-serving. However, the reality is that politics is normal.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2015
Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules. This is the type of organization in which those with little understanding of or interest in politics — the purists among us — can thrive. Political behavior, where it does exist, is low-key or deniable.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it.
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