Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people. — 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
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
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
Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be… — 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
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
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
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
