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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

Like someone traveling in a foreign country who can’t speak the local language, he’ll talk louder to be understood. Management professor, researcher, and author, Henry Mintzberg, points to a critical leadership issue, “Organizations should be built, and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered.

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Purpose Matters for Business Travel, Too

Harvard Business Review

Why do we travel? Evolution made us ever more curious, and so we traveled to learn more. Travel allows us to, a Montaigne put it, “rub and polish our brains” against people from different regions and cultures. The trick is to travel with purpose and planning. Is this still true today? First, some background.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

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.”