Leader Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

— Henry Mintzberg

“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,”

— Henry Mintzberg

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

— Henry Mintzberg

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

— Henry Mintzberg

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

— Henry Mintzberg

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

— Henry Mintzberg

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

— Henry Mintzberg

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are…

— Henry Mintzberg

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social…

— Henry Mintzberg

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

— Henry Mintzberg

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse…

— Henry Mintzberg

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day…

— Henry Mintzberg

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch…

— Henry Mintzberg

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have…

— Henry Mintzberg

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do…

— Henry Mintzberg

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers…

— Henry Mintzberg

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their…

— Henry Mintzberg

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is…

— Henry Mintzberg

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist,…

— Henry Mintzberg

Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's…

— Henry Mintzberg

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that…

— Henry Mintzberg

“A good part of the work of managing involves doing what specialists do, but in particular ways that make use of the…

— Henry Mintzberg

An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance…

— Henry Mintzberg