Henry Mintzberg, was born on September 2, 1939. He is an internationally renowned academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty o...
Henry Mintzberg Leadership
A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager’s special contacts, status, and information. Henry Mintzberg
A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the manager’s special contacts, status, and information.
As companies extended their relationships among themselves, both in breadth and especially in depth, researchers took notice, and a network model was developed .-which Hakansson and Snehota [1989:190] Henry Mintzberg
As companies extended their relationships among themselves, both in breadth and especially in depth, researchers took notice, and a network model was developed .-which Hakansson and Snehota [1989:190]
Yet we believe that strategies can and do emerge from political processes. Sometimes a single decision arrived at politically can set a precedent and thereby establish a pattern. Henry Mintzberg
Yet we believe that strategies can and do emerge from political processes. Sometimes a single decision arrived at politically can set a precedent and thereby establish a pattern.
Networks, alliances, collective strategies, outsourcing-all of this taken together is making it increasingly more difficult to figure out where one organization ends and another begins. Henry Mintzberg
Networks, alliances, collective strategies, outsourcing-all of this taken together is making it increasingly more difficult to figure out where one organization ends and another begins.
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation. Henry Mintzberg
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.
Some organizations face perpetual novelty. In other words, their environments are dynamic and unpredictable, which makes it difficult to converge on a clear strategy at all. Henry Mintzberg
Some organizations face perpetual novelty. In other words, their environments are dynamic and unpredictable, which makes it difficult to converge on a clear strategy at all.
Now leadership as well as organization becomes subordinate to the external environment. Indeed, as we have moved through the various schools, the power of the central strategist has gradually diminished. Henry Mintzberg
Now leadership as well as organization becomes subordinate to the external environment. Indeed, as we have moved through the various schools, the power of the central strategist has gradually diminished.
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. Henry Mintzberg
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.