"We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are……" — Henry Mintzberg
"We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up."
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Henry Mintzberg
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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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