Data Quote by 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 manage actions…

— 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 manager’s special…

— 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 sit in…

— Henry Mintzberg

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

— Henry Mintzberg