Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 14, 2012

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

Power 265

Power Mintzberg Management Delegation 265

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 14, 2012

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

Power 265

Power Mintzberg Management Learning-by-Doing 265

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sometimes it’s actually down to the systems and organization we create, which actually make it very difficult for even well-intentioned people to do it well. I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations.

Competitive Advantage 121

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This was the capitalist equivalent of the Communist system’s five-year plans. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” Now, strategic planning has fallen out of favor.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

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.” Think, for example, of legal, tax and technology experts, or costly test equipment. It is an age-old question.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8