Best Henry Mintzberg Quotes
- If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. Communities
- 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 - at least… Assume
- Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism. Community
- My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out… Any
- So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front… All
- This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the… American
- You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management… All
- Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have. All
- The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes… Accounting
- Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly.… Action
- Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. Inspirational
- Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet All