Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already… — 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
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — 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
Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse. — 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
