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Henry Mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg
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I currently hold the Cleghorn Professorship of Management Studies at McGill University; the Desautels Faculty of Management. I've been an academic most of my working life. I devote myself largely to writing and research, over the years especially about managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organizing. In recent years, I have shifted toward more general writing, including commentaries. In all, I have published about 170 articles, and 17 books.

Henry Mintzberg: Effective Organizations like Healthy Families

Mintzberg: Effective-Organizations like Healthy Families
Effective Organizations like Healthy Families Tolstoy began his novel Anna Karenina with the immortal words : Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy...

Henry Mintzberg: The Epidemic of Managing without Soul

Mintzberg the epidemic of managing without soul
My daughter Lisa once left me a note in a shoe that read “Souls need fixing.” Little did she know… A Tale of Two Nurses When...

If You Can’t Measure It – You’d Better Manage It.

Henry Mintzberg If you can't measure it you better manage it
Wait, that’s not it. It’s supposed to be: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”  This is sheer nonsense. If you believe it, get...

#AbusiveBossesToo

Abusive Bosses Too
Sexual and racial abuse are finally getting the attention they deserve. Managerial abuse is not. It may be less acute, but it, too, causes...

Mintzberg & Mohammadi: Zooming ahead? Not so fast!

Co-authored with Hanieh Mohammadi, doctoral student in McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management We are smitten with the latest videoconferencing technology much as a lover...

Letter from Henry Mintzberg: The Next Step Greta…

Letter from Henry Mintzberg to climate activist Greta Thunberg: Dear Greta Good for you. Thanks to your spirit, over a million youth have just marched for...

Henry Mintzberg: Strategic Thinking as “Seeing”

Henry Mintzberg: Strategic thinking as seeing
Maybe we think too much and see too little. What, then, does strategic thinking as seeing mean? Let’s begin with what strategic thinking is not....

Need a Strategy? Let them Grow like Weeds in the Garden

Henry Mintzberg strategy
Henry Mintzberg about the Need of a Strategy Searching for a strategy? Here’s how to get one, according to just about every book and article...

Mintzberg: Please Welcome CSR 2.0

Mintzberg: Please Welcome CSR 2.0
I address this especially to business executives, but as citizens of their societies and neighbors in their communities. Why do we focus on the conditions...

Henry Mintzberg: Transformation from the Top? How about Engagement on the...

Henry Mintzberg: Transformation from the top? How about engagement on the ground?
The company has a new chief, with 100 days to show the stock market some quick wins. Not the usual wins: transformation is the game. Hurry...