The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,” — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
“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… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share
