"Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but……" — 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 people are making between the two."
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Henry Mintzberg
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37 Quotes by Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg has 37 quotes on this site.
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Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic…
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No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
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What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis…
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Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
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If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control.…
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That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would…
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Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.
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A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly…
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Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves…
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Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
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The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And…
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Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
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More Discouraging Quotes
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for…
— Alfred Adler
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever…
— Mariah Carey
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we…
— William J. Clinton
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He…
— Ralph Miller
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By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport.…
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost…
— Cesar Chavez
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words…
— Don Henley
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