"No job is more vital to our society……" — Henry Mintzberg
"No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources."
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37 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…
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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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