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

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

— Henry Mintzberg

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— 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

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

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— 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

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— Henry Mintzberg

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all…

— Henry Mintzberg

Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

— 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

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

— Henry Mintzberg

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution…

— Henry Mintzberg

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

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

— Henry Mintzberg

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

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

— 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

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

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

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

— Henry Mintzberg

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

— 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