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.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Political know-how becomes important — and those who fail to develop such skills are often the ones who get left behind. Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules. Achieving a high level of political expertise is not easy — nor is maintaining it. It happens.

Politics 8

Politics Mintzberg Learning-by-Doing Organization 8

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.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15