Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". — 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
“being a manager’ means not merely assuming a position of authority but also becoming more dependent on others,” — 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
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship. — 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… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,… — 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
