Effective Managers Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

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• Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful…
• No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
• What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,…
• Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
• If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch…
• That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if…
• Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.
• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist,…
• Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be…
• Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
• The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that…
• Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

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