"The great myth is the manager as orchestra……" — Henry Mintzberg
"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 in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong."
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Henry Mintzberg
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37 Quotes by Henry Mintzberg
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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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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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