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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. For me management it’s a learned skill, it’s like learning to play golf. Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. That’s one set of reasons. It’s not my phrase. My day job is as a professor.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” They may be difficult to ‘analyze’, but they are indispensable for synthesis — the key to strategy making,” says Henry Mintzberg.

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