The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,” — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
